[Amber Halo]

Why don't we all pool our money together and buy the real ballon dog, instead of this tiny pos? Then we can circulate it amongst all the UAA members' homes, sorta like the players do with the Stanley Cup...

[Fake]

Jul 20, 2015 17:10:31 GMT 1 Dice said:

This is insane although balloon dog red and balloon dog blue plates from a few years ago consistently reach $15000 ish recently. Editions of "only" 2300 those were though.

This is also an edition of 2300

[Fake]

And there is a smart a$$ on the bay selling it already
www.ebay.nl/itm/Jeff-Koons-Balloon-Dog-Yellow-2015-kaws-warhol-murakami-hirst-lichtenstein-/281748117009?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41997f1611

[WOOF]

Jul 21, 2015 19:43:51 GMT 1 Fake said:

And there is a smart a$$ on the bay selling it already

Never been displayed, eh? I never would have guessed that...

[HRE]

They are an entrepreneur - they don't hold the stock knowing that the edition won't sell out anytime soon, up the price and if it sells they can buy it from MOCA then sell it on.

[Fake]

Jul 21, 2015 20:13:15 GMT 1 HRE said:

They are an entrepreneur - they don't hold the stock knowing that the edition won't sell out anytime soon, up the price and if it sells they can buy it from MOCA then sell it on.

Well yes this is my guess, it is a smart way to dupe stupid people... Hope no poor soul falls for this.

[Sacked...]

C'mon guys be fair...Jeff needs to make a living,he has bills to pay.

tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/jeff-koons-summer-to-do-list/?smid=fb-tmagazine&_r=0

[Unica]

And sold out already! This went fast, not really advertised at all other than the online stall. Took about 9 days to sell them all..

[alexdb]

Crazy! Edition size of 2300 with that prize. Let's see how many we will see in the 'Show us your latest buy' thread. ;-)

[Fake]

that was almost 2 million!!!! Shopify had a great month! (they take a % of each sale)

[Unica]

Probably end up being a good investment as I believe the other versions fetch around $15k.

[alexdb]

Jul 31, 2015 11:16:06 GMT 1 Unica said:

Probably end up being a good investment as I believe the other versions fetch around $15k.

2300 more added to the total, 2300 buyers that went for 8,000 rather 15,000 and perhaps a handful of flippers added. I wouldn't take this as an investment to be honest.

[coller]

Jul 31, 2015 11:25:06 GMT 1 alexdb said:

Jul 31, 2015 11:16:06 GMT 1 Unica said:

Probably end up being a good investment as I believe the other versions fetch around $15k.

2300 more added to the total, 2300 buyers that went for 8,000 rather 15,000 and perhaps a handful of flippers added. I wouldn't take this as an investment to be honest.

Would never purchase that as an investment; even a short-term.

No one is doing anything with a multi-thousand dollar plate other than framing/displaying it; the entire edition will likely be preserved and change hands for decades at or near cost, if not below. This isn't like plates by 19th/20th century artists, where many got damaged/lost/used due to delayed fame.

[Winter]

I think the consistent record of auction results has convinced a lot of people these are a good investment. Personally I think this release will bring those results down and there is every chance a pink one will arrive sometime in future too.

[coller]

Jul 31, 2015 15:36:33 GMT 1 Winter said:

I think the consistent record of auction results has convinced a lot of people these are a good investment. Personally I think this release will bring those results down and there is every chance a pink one will arrive sometime in future too.

I expect him to release every part of the color spectrum until people don't care. He's an artist with financial success as one of his main motivations. Koons wants to pile up his money so he can enjoy his Hamptons squad life.

[Black Apple Art]

Jul 31, 2015 16:47:18 GMT 1 coller said:

Jul 31, 2015 15:36:33 GMT 1 Winter said:

I think the consistent record of auction results has convinced a lot of people these are a good investment. Personally I think this release will bring those results down and there is every chance a pink one will arrive sometime in future too.

I expect him to release every part of the color spectrum until people don't care. He's an artist with financial success as one of his main motivations. Koons wants to pile up his money so he can enjoy his Hamptons squad life.

A modest $18 million per colorway. 

[coller]

Too easy

[dreadnatty]

Opening reception: Thursday, November 12th, from 6:00 to 8:00pm


Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present a new series of paintings by Jeff Koons entitled Gazing Ball.

In this series, Koons is in dialogue with artists of the past, such as Titian, El Greco, Courbet, and Manet, among others. The works deal with the power of artistic gesture. Each work has a blue glass gazing ball that sits on a painted aluminum shelf attached to the front of the painting. The viewer and the painting are reflected in the gazing ball. This metaphysical occurrence connects the viewer to a family of cultural history in real time. Through the simple act of placing a gazing ball in front of the images, painting and sculpture are reunited for maximum sensory perception, as in ancient times.

Since Jeff Koons's first solo show in 1980, his work has been widely exhibited internationally. Major retrospectives have been presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1992); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1992); Aarhus Kunstmuseum (1993); Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1993); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1993); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2004); and Helsinki City Art Museum (2005). "Jeff Koons: A Retrospective" opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in 2014 and traveled to Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2014–15).

Select museum exhibitions include “Jeff Koons on the Roof,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2008); “Jeff Koons: Versailles,” Château de Versailles (2008–09); “Jeff Koons: Celebration,” Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2008–09); “Jeff Koons: Popeye Series,” Serpentine Gallery, London (2009); “Jeff Koons,” Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (2012); and “Jeff Koons: The Painter and the Sculptor,” Schirn Kunsthalle and Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt (2012).

Currently Koons’s artworks are being displayed at Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria, Florence, for the exhibition “Jeff Koons in Florence” (through December 28, 2015). Balloon Venus (Orange) is on view in the rotunda of the Natural History Museum Vienna (through March 13, 2016).

Koons lives and works in New York City.

For further information please contact the gallery at [e-mail] or at +1.212.741.1717. All images are subject to copyright. Gallery approval must be granted prior to reproduction

[Kawsisking]

For those that ordered, I received my dog yesterday in the mail. It is beautiful (as expected)! It seems there are still about 400 for sale on Moca's site.

[Justdave]

Surprised there's not more left at $8000 each.

[Fake]

Nov 21, 2015 16:35:54 GMT 1 Justdave said:

Surprised there's not more left at $8000 each.

It said sold out for a while... now like magic 405 of them have reappeared...

[hlarmy]

They'll be far from sold out. The MOCA would have received an initial allocation to release it and the rest will be allocated to other publishers/ galleries going forward...

[Black Apple Art]

Nov 21, 2015 16:39:13 GMT 1 Fake said:

Nov 21, 2015 16:35:54 GMT 1 Justdave said:

Surprised there's not more left at $8000 each.

It said sold out for a while... now like magic 405 of them have reappeared...

Also were available at the new Broad downtown along with plenty of Hirst prints and surprisingly had a full set of Murakami skate boards as well. 

[Kawsisking]

Nov 21, 2015 16:39:13 GMT 1 Fake said:

Nov 21, 2015 16:35:54 GMT 1 Justdave said:

Surprised there's not more left at $8000 each.

It said sold out for a while... now like magic 405 of them have reappeared...

Yes, very misleading. Once they hit 0, will they have 400 more pop up? Who knows how many are actually sold?

[Kawsisking]

Nov 21, 2015 23:43:01 GMT 1 Black Apple Art said:

Nov 21, 2015 16:39:13 GMT 1 Fake said:

It said sold out for a while... now like magic 405 of them have reappeared...

Also were available at the new Broad downtown along with plenty of Hirst prints and surprisingly had a full set of Murakami skate boards as well. 

At Broad? I thought MOCA store was only seller of them in the states?

[Dungle]

Oh great I can't wait to put mine together then!!

Why are you selling yours?

[ed]

I assume its just showing off....where can I buy one of these in the UK, seems sold out everywhere!

[Cornish Crayon]

[Poly Mindset]

Jan 5, 2016 16:35:04 GMT 1 Dungle said:

Oh great I can't wait to put mine together then!!

Why are you selling yours?

I'm not selling mine I just thought I'd post it to let people see one that was done and let them know that it can be done. It's actually not that difficult, like I said it just takes a little patience.

[Deleted]

For those in the U.K

When I contacted them they said Pre order would be in the next week or two

collectanddisplay.com/collections/pre-order