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Jeff Koons Buster Keaton 1988 polychromed wood 66 x 48 x 27 in. (167.6 x 121.9 x 68.6 cm.) This work is numbered and dated "1/3 '88" on the underside. This work is number 1 from an edition of 3 plus one artist's proof.
Provenance Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne Private Collection Exhibited Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, Banality, November, 1988 (current example exhibited) New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Banality, November, 1988 (another example exhibited) Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Banality, December, 1988 (another example exhibited) Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Carnegie International,November 5, 1988 – January 22, 1989 (current example exhibited) Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, May 7 – August 13, 1989 (current example exhibited) Trento, Museum di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, American Art of the Eighties, December 1991 - March 1992 (another example exhibited) Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Let's Entertain Life's Guilty Pleasures, February 12 – April 30, 2000, then traveled to Portland Art Museum (July 7 –September 17, 2000), Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (November 15 – December 18, 2000), Wolfsburg, Germany Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (March 16–July 15, 2001), Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo (June 6 – August 8, 2001), Miami Art Museum, (September 14 – November 18, 2001) (another example exhibited) Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons June 9 - September 15, 2003 (another example exhibited) New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons Highlights of Twenty-Five Years, April 7 – June 5, 2004 (another example exhibited) Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004 (another example exhibited) Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons May 31 – September 21, 2008 (another example exhibited) New York, Haunch of Venison, Your history is not our history, March 5 - May 1, 2010 (another example exhibited) Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Ileana Sonnabend An Italian Portrait, May 29 - October 2, 2011 (another example exhibited) Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons May 13 - October 2, 2012, p.91 (another example exhibited) Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons The Sculptor, June 20 - September 23, 2012 (another example exhibited) Literature R. Mahoney, "Miracle on W. Broadway,"New York Press, New York, November 9, 1988, p.15 K. Levin, "The Evil of Banality,"Village Voice, December 20, 1988, p. 115 "Collaborations, Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons "Parkett, no.19, p. 32 (illustrated) A. Muthesius, Jeff Koons Cologne: Taschen, 1992, pp. 119 and 121, no. 21 (illustrated) G. Belli, J. Saltz, American Art of the Eighties, Milan: Electa,1991, p. 60 (illustrated) J. Koons, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London: Thames and Hudson Limited and Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992, p. 159 (illustrated) K. Jacobson, ed., Let's Entertain Life's Guilty Pleasures, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2000, p. 246, no. 41 (illustrated) M. Codognato and E. Geuna, Jeff Koons Napoli, Museo archeologico nazionale, Naples: Electa, 2003, p. 71 (illustrated) M. Spiegler, "How Many Buster Keatons Does it Take to Fill an Art Gallery,"ArtNews, September 2004, p. 121 (illustrated) M. Woltmann, ed., Jeff Koons Retrospective, Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2004, p. 89 (illustrated) Jeff Koons Highlights of Twenty-Five Years, New York: C&M Arts, 2004, no. 5, n.p. (illustrated) H. W. Holzwarth,Jeff Koons Cologne: Taschen, 2007, pp. 273-275 (illustrated) H. Bourdeaux-Martin, "Profile-Dominique Levy "Whitewall, Winter 2008, p. 42 (illustrated) F. Bonami, ed., Jeff Koons Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 64 (illustrated) M. Nakamura, "USA: Jeff Koons ” art actuel,no. 57, July/August 2008, p. 72, (illustrated) G. Bader,"Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,”Artforum, September 2008, p. 450, (Chicago installation illustrated) J. Tully, "The Reporter: Uneasy Street, ”Art & Auction, January 2009, p. 28, (illustrated) M. Sollins, ed., art: 21, Dalton, Massachusetts, 2009, p. 101, (Chicago Museum ofContemporary Art installation illust