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BEAR AND POLICEMAN

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BEAR AND POLICEMAN
<b>Artist: </b>Jeff Koons
<b>Birth: </b>(b. 1955)
<b>Medium: </b>polychromed-wood
<b>Dimensions: </b>85 x 43 x 36 in. (215.9 x 109.2 x 91.4 cm)
<b>Details: </b>executed in 1988 ; this work is from an edition of three plus one artist’s proof
<b>Provenance: </b>Sonnabend Gallery, NEW YORK
<b>Exhibited: </b>NEW YORK, Sonnabend Gallery; BERLIN, Galerie Max Hetzler and CHICAGO, Donald Young Gallery, BANALITY, 1988-1989 (another example exhibited) ; ROTTERDAM, Rotterdamse Kunststichting and Galerie t’Venster, JEFF KOONS: NIEUW WERK, January 13-February 8, 1989 (another example exhibited; illustrated in exhibition brochure) ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 10, 1992-February 7 1993 and MINNEAPOLIS, Walker Art Center, July 10-October 1993, JEFF KOONS, n.p., no. 39 (another example exhibited; illustrated) ; PULLY/LAUSANNE, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, June 14-September 13, 1992; TURIN, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, September 24 Novembr 22, 1992; ATHENS, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, December 3, 1992-February 14, 1993 and Deichtorhallen Hamburg, March 12-May 9, 1993, POST HUMAN, p. 109 (another example exhibited; illustrated) ; AMSTERDAM, Stedelijk Museum, November, 28, 1992-January 3, 1993; Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22-Febrary 28, 1993 and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12-April 18, 1993, JEFF KOONS: RETROSPECTIV, p. 64, no. 46 (another example exhibited; illustrated) ; NAPLES, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, JEFF KOONS, June 9-September 15, 2003, p. 66 (another example exhibited; illustrated)
<b>Literature: </b>J. Deitch, POST HUMAN, PULLY/LAUSANNE-TURIN-ATHENS-HAMBURG, 1992, p. 109 (illustrated) ; R. Rosenblum, ed., THE JEFF KOONS HANDBOOK, LONDON, 1992, p. 115 (illustrated) ; A. Muthesius, JEFF KOONS, COLOGNE, 1992, pp. 25 and 120-121 (illustrated) ; J.E. Sørensen and A. Kold, JEFF KOONS: RETROSPECTIV, AMSTERDAM, 1992, p. 64. no. 46 (illustrated) ; F.W. Simpson, JEFF KOONS, SAN FRANCISCO, 1993, n.p., no. 39 (illustrated) ; J. Deitch, ed., FORM FOLLOWS FICTION, MILAN, 2001, n.p. (illustrated) ; R. Crone and A. von Stosch, JEFF KOONS: HIGHLIGHTS OF 25 YEARS, NEW YORK, 2004, p. 17 (illustrated)