Place looks like a morgue. Well... a giant lobster morgue.

Jeff Koons - BMW Art Car in Paris

A friend of mine wants to buy a Jeff Koons Print, does anyone know where the best place to start looking for one is?

what are the prices of these?

Thanks in advance any help would be great

I thought they would be pricey. Its not for me but im sure my friend might think again when seeing these prices.
Any where else you can get Koons from??

you could have bought the original of "Loopy" a few months back if you were in the market

Thanks for all your help guys ill get her to have a look at these

Are you sure you haven't missed the last three digits?

Heres in interesting article I came across titled:
Inflated Ego? Jeff Koons Claims Exclusive Right to Sell Balloon Dogs

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco gallery Park Life received a present from superstar artist Jeff Koons this Christmas: a cease-and-desist letter. The missive from Koons's lawyers ordered the space's art shop to stop selling and advertising a set of balloon-dog-themed bookends sold there, claiming that they violated the intellectual property of the artist's iconic sculpture "Balloon Dog."

Some, it is fair to say, have found this turn of events somewhat risible. "Wait, I'm confused, isn't his ENTIRE f**kING CAREER based on co-opting other peoples work/objects?", reads a post on the gallery's blog from December 21. "So going forward, just so you know; Jeff Koons owns all likenesses of balloon dogs."

Co-owner Jamie Alexander had the bookends removed from Park Life's store to avoid a confrontation with the artist over the holidays. However, as of today, the site has an entry for the bookends in its "New in Stock" section, declaring "Back in Stock Soon. Much to the Dismay of Jeff Koons Lawyers. Call Us."

ARTINFO did. "We have been talking with the manufacturer and they're going to deal with it, not us," a gallery representative said. "We're not sure why Koons didn't go directly after the manufacturer in the first place."

The bookends, in fact, are manufactured by Toronto-based imm Living. They retail for $30, and are supposedly available in some 700 stores in the United States, according to an article on the dust-up in the Bay Citizen. The Park Life representative said that the original cease-and-desist letter demanded that the store hand over all remaining balloon dog merchandise to representatives of the artist.

Koons's giant-sized, highly finished "Balloon Dog" sculptures are some of his most well-known works. Versions have recently been seen on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in the inaugural show at the LACMA's Broad Contemporary Art Museum.

Park Life does sell various merchandise affiliated with artists, such as Tauba Auerbach playing cards and a Yos**tomo Nara "flip clock." And imm Living's bookend (available in orange and periwinkle) does clearly echo the Koons sculpture — though this itself echoes a conventional balloon dog of the kind commonly found at circuses and children's birthday parties.

However, the version sold at Park Life is made of painted resin, giving it a matte finish very different than the ultra-reflective surface of Koons' aluminum sculpture. Currently, imm Living's Web site advertises the item as "Big Top Bookend" ("Based on the classic art of balloon animal making, this Big Top Bookend is shaped like a top dog — but it won't pop or deflate!").

So, does Jeff Koons have the legal right to stop people from selling works that resemble balloon dogs? One relevant legal precedent may well be Blanch v. Koons, a 2006 case won by the artist himself that determined his appropriation of a copyrighted picture featuring women's legs for his work "Niagara" was protected under the United States's "fair use" statute. In that case, the court ruled that the key issue was whether the artist "had a genuine creative rationale for borrowing Blanch's image, rather than using it merely to get attention or to avoid the drudgery in working up something fresh." This time the courts will have to decide how fresh, really, a balloon dog can be.

I thought you caould buy them originally from koons as small ones but the crappy plate is not what i wanted. I would def buy a small shiny metal version if he released it himself!

Don,
I am going up to SF at the end of this week, if you really want a set I will go see if they have them in.

I hate those artists like Koons & Hirst who are on the top of the world today and think that they created everything when they just ripping other people's works or idea. If they keep ruling the world, in 5 years you won't be able to paint anything. Next step they're going to tell you that painting a dog is infringing copyright of Koon's puppy because he did it first. I don't know if the red portion was added by Jake or was in the original article but it's 100% true. You know that those artists are just in there for the money or they wouldn't even care (since they earn already enough money).

Koons artistic process (at least in the beginning, I'm not even sure he's really part of the creative process with 100 assistants) was quite simple. He was going walking down the streets. He saw something he liked, for example, a train from a shop-window, decides to cast it in silver and fill it with whiskey...... and sell it now for $1 million...

You mean this dog?

www.imm-living.com/index.php?p=view_product&running=75&cat_id=8&mcat=

FFS next he'll be trying to stop these being sold

outdoor-living.hardwarestore.com/57-240-pool-floats/lobster-pool-rider-461053.aspx

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