Art as excess, wrapped in glamour.
Jeff Koons is a globally renowned American artist celebrated for his larger-than-life sculptures that blur the lines between fine art and popular culture. His works, often playful and provocative, incorporate everyday objects, transforming them into shiny, monumental masterpieces that challenge notions of value and perception. Insuring a Jeff Koons piece is crucial, as its rarity, cultural significance, and market value make it a valuable investment that deserves protection against loss, damage, or theft.
What does Jeff Koons Art Insurance Cover?
One of the most visible and influential modern artists, Jeff Koons has a reputation for gargantuan sculptures that make up consumer culture, popular iconography, and fine art. Popping on the scene during the 1980s, Koons consistently challenged conventional tastes, values, and purposes for art. Working from meticulously devised works, his sculptures often stretch common objects to behemoth-sized pronouncements that use industrial materials, mirrored finishes, and shout-colours. With a kitsch-fine art style that is distinctly his own, Koons has become a postmodern artist and cultural critic, redefining the definition of what it is to be an artist in the 21st century.
Key Works in the Jeff Koons Collection:
Balloon Dog:
The Balloon Dog series, produced in five colors between 1994 and 2000, shows Koons's fascination with childhood innocence and mass-produced items. Standing over ten feet tall and constructed from mirror-finish stainless steel, these sculptures mirror the fragile form of a balloon animal with awe-inspiring accuracy and longevity. Both whimsical and monumental at once, Balloon Dog grapples with concerns of commodifying happiness and melancholy and leaves viewers awed by its assertive size and hypnotic surface. It is one of Koons's most famous and ubiquitous works.
Rabbit:
Designed in 1986, Rabbit is a stainless-steel sculpture modeled after an inflatable rubber toy bunny. With its shiny, smooth finish and enigmatic expression, the work embodies Koons's core issues: consumer culture, childhood memory, and the promotion of the banal to the mythic. Its indeterminacy—admirable and uncannily impersonal—encourages consideration of surface, content, and the viewer's contribution to meaning-making. Rabbit was catapulted to record-breaking status as one of the most expensive pieces of contemporary living art ever sold at auction, cementing its position as a milestone piece in the history of contemporary art.
Our specialty insurance guards against any possible harm to your collection of Jeff Koons pieces. Whether your collector's eye belongs to the hulking Balloon Dog or the sly sophistication of Rabbit, we have policy options specially created to preserve your contemporary artwork investment's value, integrity, and lasting value.
Who is Jeff Koons Art Insurance for?
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