As one of the most famous artists today, Jeff Koons produces cheerful, humorous sculptures, paintings and installations exploring the ideas of merchandise, landscape, celebrities and consumption, whose immortal balloon dog stainless steel statues, cast aluminum pool toys, Michael Jackson's golden porcelain sculpture and so on are famous around the world. Koons earned a Bachelor of Arts from the Maryland College of Art in Baltimore. His works are in the collections of The Broad and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 1986, Jeff created the stainless steel "Rabbit" sculpture, which was sold at Christie's auction in New York for $91.1 million on May 15,2019, setting a new record for a living artist. Jeff is an art star that shone in the mid-1980s, constantly brings new visual impact to the world with accurate and exquisite copies of daily necessities, lovely cartoon images. He is the explorer of contemporary Pop art.
He began creating sculptures styled based on inflatable toys in the 1970s. He picked up ready-made inflatable rabbits and cast the styling in highly polished stainless steel to produce the Rabbit in 1986, one of his most famous works of art. When it sold for $58 million, his "Balloon Dog" became the most expensive art of a living artist. Jeff Koons'“Rabbit” sculpture attracts large crowds and long lines at an exhibition in New York, July 20, 2014.
On Tuesday, one of the few paintings in Claude Monet’s celebrated “Haystacks” series that still remains in private hands sold at Sotheby' s in New York for 110.7 million U.S. dollars – a record for an Impressionist work.Some also think he changed sculpture to present their popularity in a new way by combining minimalism and Duchamp.