Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. JK Silver Series)

glass, steel, distilled water, three basketballs 
60 1/2 x 48 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
153.7 x 123.8 x 33.7 cm 
Edition of 2
© Jeff Koons
1985


Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. JK Silver Series)

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Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. JK Silver Series)

glass, steel, distilled water, three basketballs 
60 1/2 x 48 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
153.7 x 123.8 x 33.7 cm 
Edition of 2
© Jeff Koons
1985

EXHIBITED: 

Art of Sport, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Contemporary [March 25 - October 24, 2021] (Edition 2)

Jeff Koons: Now. Newport Street Gallery, London, England [May 18, 2016 - October 16, 2016] (Edition 2)

Pop to Popism. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia [November 1, 2014- March 1, 2015] (Edition 2)

Freedom Not Genius. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy [November 10, 2012 - March 10, 2013] (Edition 2) 

Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida [December 2, 2009 - August 27, 2010]; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs [February 2 - June 2, 2013]; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke [October 11, 2014 - January 10, 2015] (edition 1)

American Exuberance. Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida [November 30, 2011 - July 27, 2012] (edition 1)

Pop Art is.... Gagosian Gallery, London, England [September 27 - November 10, 2007] (Edition 2)

Life-Size: A Sense of the Real in Recent Art. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel [September 1990]

Equilibrium. International Monument Gallery, New York, New York [May 4 - June 2, 1985] 

LITERATURE: 

Luther Blissett, Les obsessions majeures de Koons. Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 28.

Wayne Tunnicliffe and Anneke Jaspers, Pop to Popism, exh. cat., (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2014), pp. 302, (color ill. p. 261).

Pinacoteca Giovanni and Marella Agnelli, Freedom not Genius. (London: Other Criteria, 2012), p. 79.

David W. Galenson, “Precocious Prodigies & Late Bloomers,” The Art Economist, July 2009, p. 72.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections. Exh. cat., 2001, (color ill. p. 117).

Jeff Koons, The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 155, (color ill. p. 61).

OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, exh. cat. (Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990), pp. 88-99, 172-173 (color ill. p. 86).

 Jeanne Siegel, "Jeff Koons: Unachievable States of Being," Art Magazine, October 1986, p. 71, (ill. p. 71)