To be offered at Christie's London Auction on June 27, Jeff Koons' Baroque Egg with Bow (Blue/Turquoise) is a monumental sculpture estimated at £ 2,500,000 – 3,500,000.
Standing at almost two meters tall, Baroque Egg with Bow (Blue/Turquoise) forms part of Jeff Koons’s iconic Celebration series. Rendered in gleaming stainless steel, it is the only work of its kind to exist in brilliant blue/turquoise. With its shimmering, mirrored surface the work recalls a monumental Easter egg as if rendered out of solid chocolate, belonging to some giant confectionary stand. It is this playful, childhood quality combined with the symbolically charged image of the egg: giver of new life and sign of the Christian resurrection, that makes this heroic sculpture so captivating. Carried out throughout the 1990s, the Celebration series became a source of almost quixotic fascination for Koons.
Recording life’s milestones throughout the calendar year, the artist created monumental sculptures such as Baroque Egg with Bow (Blue/Turquoise) and others depicting balloon flowers and diamond rings to almost mouth-watering perfection.
Jeff Koons
Baroque Egg with Bow (Blue/Turquoise)
High-chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating (199 x 195 x 163cm.)
This work is one of five versions, each uniquely colored
Estimate: £ 2,500,000 – 3,500,000
(Image © Christie’s Images Limited 2012)
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