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title: "Jeff Koons: results at LLB Auction"
source: LLB Auction
canonical: https://www.llb-auction.com/artists/jeff-koons
currency: EUR
price_basis: hammer, excluding buyer's premium and VAT
scope: results at this auction house only
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# Jeff Koons

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Movements | Neo Pop |
| Lots offered at LLB Auction | 7 |
| Lots sold | 5 |
| Range of prices realised | €1,600 to €20,200 |
| Median price realised | €8,891 |

## Lots

| Work | Medium | Sale | Date | Estimate | Hammer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balloon Dog (Blue) | Porcelain | Contemporary Art Summer 2026 | 7 July 2026 | €30,000 to €60,000 | Not sold |
| Lot 47. Jeff Koons, Encased – Five Rows (1983–1993) | Mixed Media | Contemporary Art Spring 2026 | 26 May 2026 | €300,000 to €600,000 | Not sold |
| Lot 46. Jeff Koons, Puppy (1998) | Sculpture | Contemporary Art Spring 2026 | 26 May 2026 | €5,000 to €10,000 | €5,000 |
| LOT 23. Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1995) | Print | Contemporary Art - February 2026 | 1 March 2026 | €1,500 to €3,000 | €1,600 |
| LOT 21. Gazing Ball (da Vinci Mona Lisa) | Inkjet print | Contemporary Art - December 2025 | 23 December 2025 | €20,000 to €40,000 | €20,200 |
| 49. Flag, 2024 | Print | Contemporary Art June 2025 | 29 June 2025 | €8,000 to €10,000 | €13,765 |
| 50. Le ballon du chien (bleu), 2002 | Sculpture | Contemporary Art June 2025 | 29 June 2025 | €4,000 to €8,000 | €8,891 |

## About Jeff Koons

### Life and work

Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania, and trained at the Maryland Institute College of Art before studying briefly at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is an American sculptor and painter associated with the Neo Pop movement, known for taking everyday and commercial objects, balloon animals, vacuum cleaners, inflatable toys, basketballs and classical statuary, and remaking them at monumental scale or in polished, reflective materials. Since the early 1980s his practice has moved through a sequence of distinct series, from the vacuum cleaner assemblages of The New, through Equilibrium, Banality, Made in Heaven, Celebration, Easyfun, Popeye, Antiquity and Gazing Ball, each built around a recognisable set of motifs drawn from popular culture. Koons runs a large studio in New York that fabricates his work with industrial partners and skilled craft workshops, a method closer to a design house than a traditional artist's studio, and it is this combination of pop imagery, luxury materials and serial production that has made him one of the most discussed and most collected living artists.

### Editions and unique works

The market for Koons separates sharply along one line, whether a piece is a unique large scale sculpture or an editioned multiple. The unique steel works in the Celebration series, oversized balloon animals in mirror polished stainless steel, are singular objects or exist in a handful of colour variants and have driven the artist's highest results. Alongside them Koons has produced editioned works in porcelain and painted stainless steel, made with the French manufacturer Bernardaud in Limoges and other publishers, in sizes closer to tabletop objects than to museum sculpture. These editions, including versions of Balloon Dog, Balloon Rabbit and the Puppy vase, are numbered and issued in runs of a few hundred to a few thousand per colourway rather than made as unique works, and it is this category, not the monumental steel pieces, that circulates most often at general auction and that LLB Auction has itself brought to sale.

### What a specialist examines

On an editioned Koons piece a specialist checks the incised or printed signature, the edition number against the total run, and the publisher's stamp on the underside, most often Bernardaud's mark for the porcelain works. Condition matters more here than with painted works: chrome and glaze finishes show scuffing, chips and hairline cracks readily, and the original presentation box, once part of the object as sold, affects value when it survives intact. Provenance should trace back to the publisher or an authorised dealer, and any exhibition history should be checked against the shows listed under Career. For a unique sculpture, fabrication records, studio documentation and the body listed under Career become the reference points instead of an edition number.

### Market position

Koons trades at auction across a wide range because the market treats unique sculpture and small editions so differently. At the smaller end of that range, editioned porcelain multiples have sold for figures such as 5,080 USD and 19,050 USD at Phillips in New York, and 5,632 GBP and 20,480 GBP at Bonhams in London, while a Puppy vase edition sold for 6,400 USD at Bonhams in Los Angeles. These are the kinds of works closest in scale and medium to what LLB Auction has itself sold. The unique large scale sculptures occupy a separate, far higher tier of the market and are not represented among the figures in this record.

### Preparing a valuation request

A seller should have the original invoice or gallery receipt, any publisher paperwork issued with the edition, and clear photographs of the signature, the edition number and the underside or base of the piece. The original presentation box and any accompanying literature should be kept together with the work whenever possible. A condition report noting chips, scuffing or restoration is useful before consignment, along with the exhibition or publication history if the piece has one. Buyers and sellers should also confirm that a piece is an authorised edition from a named publisher rather than a later reproduction, since unauthorised copies of popular Koons subjects such as Balloon Dog are known to circulate outside his publishing relationships.

## Market at LLB Auction

| Figure | Value |
|---|---|
| Sell-through | 71% |
| Record hammer | €20,200 (LOT 21. Gazing Ball (da Vinci Mona Lisa)) |
| Hammer vs low estimate | 1.40x |
| Lots above high estimate | 2 |

### Prices by medium

| Medium | Offered | Sold | Lowest hammer | Median hammer | Highest hammer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Print | 2 | 2 | €1,600 | €13,765 | €13,765 |
| Sculpture | 2 | 2 | €5,000 | €8,891 | €8,891 |
| Inkjet print | 1 | 1 | €20,200 | €20,200 | €20,200 |
| Mixed Media | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Porcelain | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |

### Year by year

| Year | Offered | Sold | Total hammer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | €42,856 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 | €6,600 |

## Public auction records

Results published by other auction houses, cited from the linked sources. Not results of LLB Auction.

| House | Date | Work | Price (basis) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonhams | 19 November 2024 | Balloon Rabbit (Violet) (2017) | £5,632 (premium) | https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29913/lot/47/jeff-koons-born-1955-balloon-rabbit-violet-2017/ |
| Bonhams | 1 May 2024 | Balloon Dog (Blue) (2021) | £20,480 (premium) | https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29344/lot/9/jeff-koons-american-born-1955-balloon-dog-blue-porcelain-multiple-painted-in-chrome-2021-with-the-printed-signature-date-title-and-numbering-183799-on-the-underside-there-were-also-50-artists-proofs-published-by-bernardaud-limoges-france-with-their-stamp-on-the-underside-housed-within-the-original-styrofoam-lined-presentation-box-with-metallic-blue-printed-signatureoverall-400-x-480-x-158mm-15-34-x-18-78-x-6-14in/ |
| Bonhams | 7 October 2025 | Puppy (Vase) (1998) | US$6,400 (premium) | https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30860/lot/99/jeff-koons-born-1955-puppy-vase/ |
| Phillips | 22 October 2024 | Balloon Rabbit (Red) (2017) | US$19,050 (premium) | https://www.phillips.com/detail/jeff-koons/NY030624/240 |
| Phillips | 27 June 2024 | Balloon Dog (Red) (1995) | US$5,080 (premium) | https://www.phillips.com/detail/jeff-koons/NY030424/168 |

## Career

### Cautions

- Koons's editioned porcelain and painted stainless steel multiples, such as the Balloon Dog, Balloon Rabbit and Puppy vase series, are numbered runs published with Bernardaud and other manufacturers and trade at a small fraction of the artist's unique large scale steel sculptures. (https://www.jeffkoons.com/artwork/editions)
- Unauthorized stainless steel and resin reproductions of the Balloon Dog design have been sold online outside the artist's publishing relationships with Bernardaud and other authorized manufacturers. (https://artlyst.com/news/fake-jeff-koons-stainless-steel-balloon-dogs-flood-in-from-china/)
- The porcelain and glazed editions are fragile. A Balloon Dog porcelain edition valued at 42,000 US dollars shattered after a visitor knocked its pedestal at a Miami art fair in 2023. (https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/20/miami-art-collector-smashes-42000-jeff-koons-balloon-dog-after-giving-pedestal-little-kick)

### Exhibitions

| Exhibition | Venue | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Jeff Koons: A Retrospective | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | 2014 |
| Jeff Koons, la retrospective | Centre Pompidou, Paris | 2014 |
| Jeff Koons: A Retrospective | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | 2015 |

### Authentication bodies

- Bernardaud (https://www.bernardaud.com/en/us/balloon-dog-blue-by-jeff-koons-edition-en-porcelaine): French porcelain manufacturer and official publisher of Koons's Balloon and Puppy porcelain editions since the 1990s. Each cast is numbered and stamped with the publisher's mark at its Limoges workshop and issued with a certificate of authenticity from the publisher.

## Comparables

Comparable price band (middle half of hammer prices here): €5,000 to €13,765

Related artists: Daniel Arsham, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Mr. Brainwash, Neshat Shirin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden

## In museum collections

| Work | Year | Museum |
|---|---|---|
| New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker | — | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| Balloon Dog (Blue) | — | The Broad, Los Angeles |
| Puppy | — | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao |

## Sources

- LLB Auction catalogue (Proprietary)
- Bonhams (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.bonhams.com
- Phillips (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.phillips.com
- Whitney Museum of American Art (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://whitney.org
- Centre Pompidou (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.centrepompidou.fr
- Bernardaud (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.bernardaud.com
- Artlyst (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://artlyst.com
- The Art Newspaper (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.theartnewspaper.com
- Jeff Koons Studio (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.jeffkoons.com
- Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koons
- Wikidata contributors (CC0): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297525
- Bengt Oberger, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Koons_01.JPG
- The Museum of Modern Art (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81090
- The Broad (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.thebroad.org/art/jeff-koons/balloon-dog-blue
- Guggenheim Bilbao (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/the-collection/works/puppy

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