{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":37229,"auction_id":48,"set_id":76,"lot_number":"99","artist":"Jeff Koons (b.1955)","title":"Balloon Dog (Yellow)","starting_price":600000,"signed_dated":"Edition (1300/2300) produced by Bernadaud, France , 2015","medium":"porcelain","size":"H: 10 1/2” x L: 10 1/2” x W: 5” (27 cm x 27 cm x 13 cm)","property":null,"coa":"This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Mr. Michel Bernardaud, President of Bernardaud, France confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Bernardaud, France Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Considered as one of the most sought after albeit controversial artists of the 20th century, American artist Jeff Koons sought to infuse the ideas of Pop and Conceptual Art in making the mundane object, including billboards, dogs and balloons into his own distinct iconography. Concerned mainly with the ideas of sex, gender issues, race relations, commercialism, big business, fame or infamy, Koons has sought to bridge above these ideologies using his art as a medium of conversation. Best known for large-scale installations, his Balloon Dogs are one of his most iconic works started in the mid-1990’s towers over the populace, as an ode to being modern-day Sphinx that have transformed as mere souvenir given to children at birthday parties to being a human symbol in a frenetic consumerist world. Koons once commented to Zuzanna Stanska, a prominent art critic for Daily Art Magazine on the context of this series: “I’ve always enjoyed balloon animals because they’re like us. We’re balloons. You take a breath and you inhale [its] optimism. You exhale, and it’s kind of a symbol of death.”  The image of the Balloon Dog has since become an iconic staple in contemporary pop culture with the likes of rapper Shawn Carter (professionally known as Jay-Z) discussing his fascination of the said piece in his 2013 hit single Picasso Baby:“Oh what a feeling, [expletive] it; I want a billion, Jeff Koons balloons, I just wanna blow up!” Controversy has constantly followed the Balloon Dog since its inception, with its iterations being exhibited across the globe causing a stir by visitors and even amongst the cultural literati. One famous incident provoked frenzy at the Château de Versailles, when a version in a shocking pink color was exhibited in one of the famed halls of the 17th century former residence of King Louis XIV in 2008, causing the exhibition site to be temporarily closed off to the general public.   This iteration done in a limited edition of 2300 was done by Koons in collaboration with the French luxury ceramic maison Bernardaud. Sporting the yellow metallic sheen, this iteration made in a porcelain version that mimics his stainless steel sheen on his more large-scale works. Crafted by gifted artisans from the entire workshop maison in several painstaking hours of hand-polished chrome blended into the ceramic balloon, Koons has reshaped our fascination with the mundane and the fleeting by molding perishable object that of porcelain into an eye-catching souvenir that endures longer than a mere plastic balloon.  References: Stanska, Z. (2008, January 21). Jeff Koons and His Balloon Dogs. Retrieved August 10, 2018, from http://www.dailyartmagazine.com/jeff-koons-balloon-dog/ Holzwarth, H., Schneider, E., & Siegel, K. (2015). Koons (1st ed., Basic Art Series 2.0). Ko?ln: Taschen.","lot_group":"OBJET D' ARTS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":35257,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/48/76/lot/99.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":98,"next":100,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}