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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2018 | Cracked Egg (Blue) | Christie's | London | ||||
sculpture
165.1 x 159.1 x 159.1 cm (65 x 62.63 x 62.63 in)
mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent colour coating
Gagosian Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.
London, Gagosian Gallery, Cracked Egg (Blue), 2006.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, 2008, p. 115 (Cracked Egg (Magenta) illustrated in colour, p. 83).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, 240th Summer Exhibition, 2008, p. 192 (Cracked Egg (Blue) illustrated in colour, p. 173).
Los Angeles, Broad Contemporary Art Museum at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, 2008 (Cracked Egg (Red) exhibited).
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, 2008-2009, p. 57 (installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 54-57).
Aylesbury, Waddesdon Manor Conservatory, "Cracked Egg (Blue)", 2010.
Kiev, PinchukArtCentre, Sexuality and Transcendence, 2010, p. 13 (installation view Cracked Egg (Violet) illustrated in colour, pp. 14-15).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, 2012, p. 204 (installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 130 and 157; installation view Cracked Egg (Magenta) illustrated in colour, p. 156).
G. Burn, ‘A Life in Art: The Showman’, in Guardian, 11 November 2006 (installation view illustrated in colour).
H.W. Holzwarth (ed.), Jeff Koons, Cologne 2007, p. 602 (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 420-421).
N. Bisky, ‘Was macht die Kunst? (What Does Art Do?)’, in Vanity Fair, No. 46, 6 November 2008, pp. 41 and 43 (illustrated in colour).
M. Duncan, ‘LACMA Sizes Up’, No. 5, vol. 96, in Art in America, May 2008 (Cracked Egg (Red) illustrated in colour, p. 68).
P. McCaughey, ‘Taming the Monster’, in Apollo, April 2008 (installation view of Cracked Egg (Red) illustrated in colour, p. 30).
H.W. Holzwarth (ed.), Jeff Koons, Cologne 2009, p. 588 (installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 408-409 and 561).
H.W. Holzwarth (ed.), 100 Contemporary Artists A-K, Cologne 2009, p. 322 (illustrated in colour, pp. 324 and 693).
J. Jones, ‘Not Just the King of Kitsch’, in The Guardian, 30 June 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 324).
D. Steadman (ed.), ‘As Sure as Eggs is Eggs - The Emblem of Easter’, in Kudos Magazine, April 2009, cover, p. 30 (illustrated in colour, Cracked Egg (Blue) and Cracked Egg (Magenta)).
T. Thompson, ‘Modern Art at Waddesdon Manor’, in The Oxford Times, 29 July 2010.
J. Wullschlager, ‘Lunch with the FT: Jacob Rothschild’, in Financial Times, 16 April 2010 (illustrated in colour as a drawing).
R. Moss (ed.), ‘National Trust and Arts Council build links with new three-year contemporary sector scheme’, in Culture 24, 7 June 2010 (illustrated in colour).
L. Yablonsky, ‘First Generation’, in Artforum, 18 December 2010.
S. Delos, ‘Une Journée avec Jeff Koons’, in Elle, September 2010 (illustrated in colour).
R. Spence, ‘Art, chez Rothschild’, in Financial Times, 11 May 2012 (illustrated in colour).
P. Dagen, ‘Un Jeff Koons en cache toujours un autre’, in Le Monde, 14 May 2012, (installation view illustrated in colour).
'The Story behind Koons' Cracked Egg' in Phaidon, August 2012 (Cracked Egg Violet illustrated in colour).
K. Crown, ‘A Steel Mogul’s Fascination with Koons’s ‘Cracked Egg’’, in The Wall Street Journal, 26 July 2013 (Cracked Egg (Violet) illustrated in colour).
H.W. Holzwarth (ed.), Brancusi in New York 1913-2013, exh. cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2013, p. 88.
N. Whitaker, ‘Slightly Surreal’, in Belle Australia, October-November 2013, (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 78).
A. Husslein-Arco, E. Köb, and T. Mießgang (eds.),The Other Side: Mirrors and Reflections in Contemporary Art, exh. cat., Vienna, 2014 (illustrated in colour, pp. 41 and 128).
J. Koons and N. Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal, London 2014 (installation view of Cracked Egg (Magenta) illustrated in colour, p. 228).
Jeff Koons: La Retrospective, exh.cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014, p. 290, pl. 87 (illustrated in colour, p. 142).
L.N. Peacock, ‘Crystal Bridges installs Jeff Koons’ Hanging Heart’, in Arkansas Times, 13 February 2014.
R. Scott, ‘Speculating on Trophy Art’, in The New York Times, 2 March 2014 (Cracked Egg (Magenta) illustrated in colour).
T. Mullaney, ‘Review: In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde by Matti Bunzl’, in Chicago Tribune, 24 December 2014 (Cracked Egg (Magenta)).
‘Jeff Koons: High art or plain extravagance?’, in Al Jazeera, 22 August 2015.
M. Goumaz, ‘Le Contrôle fédéral des finances fait du grand art comique’, in Le Temps, 1 April 2016, (Cracked Egg (Magenta) illustrated in colour).
C. Hardaway, ‘It’s a Koons’ World’, 16 November 2016.
M. Lion, ‘La scultura non é solo uova di Pasqua’ in First online, 30 March 2018, (Cracked Egg (Magenta) illustrated in colour).
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