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  • Art collector accidentally breaks $42K Jeff Koons ‘Balloon Dog’ sculpture in Miami

    02/17/2023 9:57:16 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 37 replies
    An art advisor at the gallery backed up Gamson’s theory, telling the Herald it was just an accident. Fortunately, the sculpture was covered by insurance and didn’t cost the woman anything, the report said. The smashed sculpture was a miniature version of Koons’ famed 12-foot-tall Balloon Dog sculpture that’s made out of mirror-polished stainless steel and on display in Los Angeles. Koons has created a series of the pups between 1994 and 2000 in a variety of colors, sizes and material. The piece that was destroyed Thursday night stood about 15 inches tall, was blue in color and was made...
  • Jeff Koons work sells for $91.1 million, record for living artist

    05/16/2019 3:36:49 AM PDT · by C19fan · 39 replies
    AFP ^ | May 15, 2019 | Staff
    A sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday for $91.1 million at an auction organized by Christie's in New York -- a record price for a living artist. "Rabbit", a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, was the star of the auction house's spring sale and overtook the previous record set by British painter David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)", which sold last November at Christie's for $90.3 million.