JEFF KOONS (b. 1955, USA)

'Lips' (detail), 2000/2012 (from Easyfun-Ethereal)

Limited Edition Limoges Porcelain Collector's Coupe Plate by Bernardaud

Beautiful high quality artist designed limited edition screen-printed porcelain plate produced by Bernardaud, France. Dimensions: 12-1/4" (31 cm) diameter. Edition size: 2500. Signed in the print and numbered 'XXXX/2500' in the porcelain on the back, with a certificate from the Bernardaud factory. BRAND NEW / Mint condition in original shrink-wrapped gift box (13" x 13" x 2-1/2").

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This screen-printed porcelain plate features an image of Jeff Koons's painting Lips from 2000. Koons's works challenge the conventional distinction between art and kitsch. The New York-based, US-born artist draws his inspiration from the world of advertising and commercial art, but also from daily life, childhood and art history. Innocence, beauty, sexuality and happiness are all themes of his art. The plate was made in collaboration with renowned porcelain manufacturer Bernardaud, which has crafted fine Limoges porcelain since 1863. Dishwasher safe. Limited Edition 2500.

Lips (2000) is a large-scale painting from Jeff Koons's series Easyfun-Ethereal featuring lush food and fashion imagery floating against a pastoral background. The lustrous, lipstick covered lips, locks of hair, corn kernels, and fruit slices, and peach colored liquid are computer-scanned reproductions taken from magazine advertising and the artist’s personal photographs, combining familiar yet sometimes unrelated images to create a surreal layered painting rendered with photo-realist perfection. Koons compresses his imagery into the foreground of his works, treating his subjects as purposefully flat, opaque images that seem to deny any specific social critique or psychological implications. Instead, his imagery, which is drawn from pop culture to art historical references, emphasizes acceptance and celebrates the sensuality and amazement that can be wrought from all of life's visual experiences.

Following the enthusiastic public response to Balloon Flower (Blue), the large mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture installed in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin in 1999, the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin commissioned the first seven of the Easyfun-Ethereal paintings: mural-sized tableaux that combine cut-out photographs of packaged foods, fragments of faces, limbs, and hair, amusement park scenes, and paradisiacal landscapes into images of convulsive beauty.

In Lips (2000), two pairs of lips, swathes of silky brown hair, and a disembodied blue eye float among over-sized corn niblets and streams of red-orange liquid, with a verdant South African vista in the background. 

The Easyfun-Ethereal series, which eventually expanded to twenty-four paintings, allowed Koons to work more spontaneously, in contrast to the detailed production demands of the Celebration sculptures. Working from computer-scanned reproductions taken from various printed media, as well as his own photographs, he considers the use of gesture, expression, and eroticism in artistic precedents and American advertising. Multi-layered yet possessing a classical order, the resulting paintings marry the immediacy of collage with Romantic grandeur.

Bernardaud is a family owned-and-operated business which was founded in 1863 in Limoges, France. The trendsetting company is recognized worldwide for its commitment to the French traditions of refinement and creativity in the crafting of porcelain tableware, jewelry and interior design pieces.

Born in 1955, in York, PA, Jeff Koons is a contemporary artist based in New York. Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, his works have been exhibited in major museums, galleries, and cultural institutions around the world, including Rockefeller Center, the Palace of Versailles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. He has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his cultural achievements. Koons is also known as a philanthropist; over the last four decades he has been involved with many causes while also serving on the board of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children.

'Jeff Koons: Lost in America', the artist's first exhibition in the Gulf region, is on view at the QM Gallery AL RIWAQ, Doha, Qatar, November 21, 2021 through March 31, 2022.

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