Jeff Koons, Hulk (Friends)

polychromed bronze
71 1/4 x 48 1/2 x 26 in. (181 x 123.2 x 66 cm.)
Executed in 2004-2012, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof.

Provenance:
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
RBS Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited:
Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons, The Sculptor, June 20 - September 23, 2012, pp. 114, 188 (illustrated, p. 115)
Brussels, Almine Rech Gallery, Jeff Koons, October 6 - November 15, 2012, pp. 36, 89 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 37; installation views of another example illustrated, pp. 30, 33, 38, 40)
Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Empire State. New York Art Now, November 17, 2013 - February 15, 2014 (another example exhibited)
Hong Kong, Gagosian, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, November 6 - December 20, 2014, p. 32 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 34; details of another example illustrated, front cover and pp. 33-35)
Vienna, Galerie Belvedere, Jeff Koons – Hulk (Friends), September 4 - October 5, 2015 (another example exhibited)
Porto, Museu Serralves, A Coleção Sonnabend / The Sonnabend Collection. Part II, May 11 - September 23, 2018, pp. 120, 133 (another example exhibited and illustrated, front cover and p. 121)
Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, May 19 - September 29, 2019, pp. 224, 240, 253 (details of another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 4-5; another example illustrated, p. 241)

Literature:
George Pendle, "Welcome to the Funhouse", The American Visual Arts in China, Summer/Fall 2012, p. 37 (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt, 2012 installation view illustrated)
"Jeff Koons's New Sculptures, Sexy Contemporary Antiques", The Economist, July 7-13, 2012, p. 76 (another example illustrated)
Andrew LaSane, “Jeff Koons’s “Hulk Elvis” Exhibition Opens Soon at Gagosian Gallery in Hong Kong”, Complex, October 17, 2014, online (another example illustrated)
Darryl Wee, “Jeff Koons Opens Solo Show at Gagosian Hong Kong”, BLOUIN ARTINFO, November 6, 2014, online (another example illustrated)
Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, “The Words”, Garage Magazine, Fall/Winter 2014, p. 87 (another example illustrated)
Gagosian, November 2014 - January 2015, p. 138 (detail of another example illustrated, front and back cover)