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Jeff Koons Biography
Jeff Koons is one of the most popular and richest Pop Artist who was born on January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania, United States. High-grossing pop artist whose best-known works included “Puppy” and “Balloon Dog,” which sold for a record $58.4 million on November 12, 2013, at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
He appeared in the film Milk with actor Sean Penn.
Jeffrey L. Koons (/k uː n z / ; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals – produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least two record auction prices for a work by a living artist, including $91.1 million with fees in May 2019, for his Rabbit, purchased by Robert E. Mnuchin according to a New York Times article.
Koons started creating sculptures using inflatable toys in the 1970s. Taking a readymade inflatable rabbit, Koons cast the object in highly polished stainless steel, resulting in Rabbit (1986), one of his most famous artworks. Originally part of the private collection of Ileana Sonnabend, Rabbit is today owned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A proof of the sculpture is owned by Eli Broad.
His first wife was Hungarian-Italian adult film star Ilona Staller. He had six children with his second wife, Justine Wheeler.
Name | Jeff Koons |
First Name | Jeff |
Last Name | Koons |
Occupation | Pop Artist |
Birthday | January 21 |
Birth Year | 1955 |
Place of Birth | York |
Home Town | Pennsylvania |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Aquarius |
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Father | Not Available |
Mother | Not Available |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Not Known |
Children(s) | Not Available |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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A Koons sculpture of a ballerina looks like a copy of the piece Ballerina Lenochka created by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Zhnykrup in 1974.
Jeff Koons Net Worth
Jeff Koons is one of the richest Pop Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeff Koons's net worth $200 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he met the famed Ed Paschke, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. He worked as a Wall Street broker before pursuing a full-time career as an artist.
His work, “Tulips,” sold for over $33 million in 2012.
The same material of stainless steel was used for the statue of Kiepenkerl. After being rebuilt in the 1950s, the figure of the itinerant trader was replaced by Jeff Koons in 1987 for the decennial Skulptur Projekte exhibition. Standing on a central square in Münster, the statue retained a certain cultural power as a nostalgic symbol of the past. During the production process, the foundry where the piece was being made wanted to knock the ceramic shell off too soon, which resulted in the piece being bent and deformed. Koons decided to bring in a specialist and give the piece “radical plastic surgery.” After this experience he felt liberated: “I was now free to work with objects that did not necessarily pre-exist. I could create models.”
Net Worth | $200 Million |
Salary | Under Review |
Source of Income | Pop Artist |
Cars | Not Available |
House | Living in own house. |
Between 1977 and 1979 Koons produced four separate artworks, which he later referred to as Early Works. Starting from 1978 he worked on his Inflatables series, consisting of inflatable flowers and a rabbit of various heights and colours, positioned along with mirrors.
After college, Koons moved to New York in 1977 and worked at the membership desk of the Museum of Modern Art while establishing himself as an artist. During this time, he dyed his hair red and would often cultivate a pencil mustache, after Salvador Dalí. In 1980, he got licensed to sell mutual funds and stocks and began working as a Wall Street commodities broker at First Investors Corporation. After a summer with his parents in Sarasota, Florida (Koons took on a brief job there as a political canvasser), he returned to New York and found a new career as a commodities broker, first at Clayton Brokerage Company and then at Smith Barney. He did this job when he encountered the problem of financing his first series, but also in order to be independent from the art market: “I could make exactly what art I wanted to make. And I would always know that I didn’t need the art market.”
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Koons studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. While a visiting student at the Art Institute, Koons met the artist Ed Paschke, who became a major influence and for whom he worked as a studio assistant in the late 1970s. He lived in Lakeview, and then in the Pilsen neighborhood at Halsted Street and 19th Street.
Since 1979 Koons has produced work within series. His early work was in the form of conceptual sculpture, an example of which is The Pre-New, a series of domestic objects attached to light fixtures, resulting in strange new configurations. Another example is The New, a series of vacuum-cleaners, often selected for brand names that appealed to the artist like the iconic Hoover, which he had mounted in illuminated Perspex boxes. Koons first exhibited these pieces in the window of the New Museum in New York in 1980. He chose a limited combination of vacuum cleaners and arranged them in cabinets accordingly, juxtaposing the verticality of the upright cleaners with the squat cylinders of the “Shelton Wet/Dry drum” cleaners. At the museum, the machines were displayed as if in a showroom, and oriented around a central red fluorescent lightbox with just the words “The New” written on it as if it were announcing some new concept or marketing brand.
Who is Jeff Koons Dating?
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Jeff Koons. You may help us to build the dating records for Jeff Koons!Koons has been represented by dealers such as Mary Boone (1979–1980), Sonnabend Gallery (since 1986), Max Hetzler in Berlin and Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris. The exclusive right to the primary sale of the “Celebration” series is held by Gagosian Gallery, his dominant dealer. Today Koons works closely with Gagosian and with Sonnabend. The artist is widely collected in America and Europe, where some collectors acquire his work in depth. Eli Broad has 24 pieces, and Dakis Joannou owns some 38 works from all stages of the artist’s career.
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Jeff Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jeff Koons celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.
Mark Stevens of The New Republic dismissed him as a “decadent artist [who] lacks the imaginative will to do more than trivialize and italicise his themes and the tradition in which he works … He is another of those who serve the tacky rich”. Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times saw “one last, pathetic gasp of the sort of self-promoting hype and sensationalism that characterized the worst of the 1980s” and called Koons’ work “artificial”, “cheap”, and “unabashedly cynical”.
How much is Jeff Koons art worth?
Koons’ sculptures are among some of the most expensive to have ever been sold at auction. “Rabbit” (1986) sold for $91 million at Christie’s New York in 2019, while “Balloon Dog (Orange)” (1994-2000) sold for $58.4 million six years earlier.
What is Jeff Koons most famous piece?
Balloon Flower (Red) Koons’ most famous works to date are his towering sculptures inspired by balloon animals.
Why is Jeff Koons important?
Jeff Koons has been associated with pop art, conceptual art and minimalism. His use of themes and subjects from popular culture (such as toys, ornaments and advertising) is characteristic of pop art. But Koons’s work also has qualities that suggest minimalist art.
Why is Jeff Koons balloon dog so famous?
Balloon Dog (Orange) broke the records seven years ago when it was sold for $52 million. As a result, it went into the record books by being the most expensive artwork by a living artist. The price was the highest by any Koons piece of artwork, breaking the previous record of $33.7 million.
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