Balloon dog (Red)
designed 1995
- Medium
- porcelain
- Measurements
- 11.3 × 26.3 cm diameter
- Place/s of Execution
- United States
- Edition
- ed. 1113/2300
- Inscription
- printed in red on plastic label on base c.: BALLOON DOG / BY / JEFF KOONS / LIMITED EDITION. FINE PORCELAIN / PLATE NUMBER / 1113/2300 (1113/2300 underlined) 195 / THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART / LOS ANGELES
- Accession Number
- 2006.386
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Eric Harding and Athol Hawke, 2006
© Jeff Koons- all requests to reproduce image to be made to Jeff Koons Studio
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 has been designing sculptures of balloon animals since the 1980s. Balloon dog was first designed in 1995 and produced in a limited edition of 2300. In 1996, Koons made a life-sized person riding a balloon dog. According to the artist, it is ‘about celebration and childhood and colour and simplicity – but it’s also a Trojan horse. It’s a Trojan horse to the whole body of artwork.’
- Physical description
- Red dog on a mirrored silver plate.
