Puppy, vase
1998
- Medium
- porcelain
- Measurements
- 44.6 × 27.9 × 44.8 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Italy
- Edition
- ed. 1394/3000
- Inscription
- impressed in base l.l.: Jeff K
impressed in base l.c.: '98
impressed in base l.r.: 1394/3000
impressed in base u.r.: ART OF THIS / CENTURY· (inverted)
impressed in base u.l.: (crown) CVS / (...illeg.) / C. (...illeg.) - Accession Number
- 2004.564
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 2004
© Jeff Koons
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Gallery 17
Level 3, NGV Australia - About this work
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Jeff Koons’s work draws from kitsch, art history and popular culture, and celebrates a high-camp aesthetic. In 1991, Koons produced a series of naturalistically modelled sculptures of dogs, culminating in his gigantic Puppy of 1992. Following this success, Koons produced a limited edition of smaller terrier and poodle sculptures, and in 1998 released the limited edition Puppy, vase. A self-proclaimed ‘ideas man’, Koons employs technicians to make much of his art. For him, the hand of the artist is not the important issue. ‘Art is really just communication of something,’ he says. ‘The more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is.’
