Balloon Dog (Orange) by Jeff Koons on Display at Christie's (Rockefeller Plaza)

Jeff Koons' sculpture, Balloon Dog (Orange) is on display in front of Christie's at Rockefeller Plaza as part of the Post-War and Contemporary Art auction. This work in stainless steel is one of the most beloved of all contemporary sculptures because it celebrates childhood, hope and innocence.

TULIPS by Jeff Koons in Full Bloom Outside Christie's at Rockefeller Center

Tulips (1995-2004), a shiny and colorful sculpture by Jeff Koons has been installed in a black pool outside Christie’s at Rockefeller Center. The sculpture is a bouquet of seven tulips of different colors fabricated from mirror-polished stainless steel in an edition of five. This is part of Mr. Koons’ “Celebration” series. This beautiful piece is expected to sell between $20 million and $30 million at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on November 14. 

BALLOON FLOWER (Blue) by JEFF KOONS For Auction At Christie's Nov. 10 Post-War And Contemporary Evening Sale

On display outside Christie's at Rockefeller Center is one of five unique versions of sculptor JEFF KOONS' "Baloon Flower (Blue)." Executed in 1995-2000, the piece is made of high chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 133 1/4 x 112 1/4 x 103 3/8 inches. I made these images last night. The estimated value of this piece is $12,000,000-16,000,000. The sculpture will be auctioned on November 10, and its performance that evening will be closely watched as a gauge of the uppermost echelon of today's art market. In November 2007, Jeff Koons's "Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)" sold for $23.6 million at Sotheby's New York, setting a world auction record for a work by a living artist. In June 2008, Balloon Flower (Magenta)," surpassed that price, fetching $25.7 million in a Christie's showroom.

Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals and flower produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. Balloon Flower (Red) is installed at 7 World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan.

JEFF KOONS' Balloon Dog (Orange) at the Seagram Building on Park Avenue

JEFF KOONS' sculpture, BALLOON DOG (Orange) has been installed in the lobby of the Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue. The sculpture is among the most desirable pieces from Koons' 1994-2000 CELEBRATION Series. Made of stainless steel, the sculpture measures 10 ft x 12 ft x 45 in.

BALLOON FLOWER (Red) by JEFF KOONS at 7 World Trade Center

BALLOON FLOWER (Red) is a beautiful mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture by internationally acclaimed artist, JEFF KOONS. The piece is installed in a small plaza outside 7 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Overlooking Ground Zero, the art installation is located in a park bounded by Greenwich Street, Vesey Street and West Broadway. The Balloon Flower consists of seven elements: six large blossom- or balloon-like shapes of various sizes, and one bar that can be taken as a flower stem. They are all aglow in bright red, so that they can see themselves and the world around them reflected. It's been said that the true appeal of the Balloon Flower is that it attracts people to look at it, and then reflects them back at themselves. 
Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania on January 21, 1955. As a young man, Koons revered Salvador Dalí. Koons attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and studied painting. After college he worked as a Wall Street commodities broker, while establishing himself as an artist. He gained recognition in the 1980s, and subsequently set up a factory-like studio in a SoHo loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway in New York. This had over 30 staff, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work—in a similar mode to both Andy Warhol's Factory and many Renaissance artists. Last year, his art piece "Hanging Heart" sold at Sotheby's auction house for $23.6 million becoming the most expensive piece by a living artist ever auctioned. It was bought by the Gagosian Gallery which also purchased another Koons sculpture entitled "Diamond (Blue)" for $11.8 million from Christie's auction house.

RED BALLOON FLOWER by JEFF KOONS

Outside the new 7 World Trade Center is a small plaza where a striking sculpture is located. It's called BALLOON FLOWER (Red) by internationally acclaimed artist, JEFF KOONS. Overlooking Ground Zero, the art installation is located in a park bounded by Greenwich Street, Vesey Street and West Broadway. The Balloon Flower consists of seven elements: six large blossom- or balloon-like shapes of various sizes, and one bar that can be taken as a flower stem. They are all aglow in bright red, so that they can see themselves and the world around them reflected. It's been said that the true appeal of the Balloon Flower is that it attracts people to look at it, and then reflects them back at themselves.

Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania. As a young man, Koons revered Salvador Dalí. Koons attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and studied painting. After college he worked as a Wall Street commodities broker, while establishing himself as an artist. He gained recognition in the 1980s, and subsequently set up a factory-like studio in a SoHo loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway in New York. This had over 30 staff, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work—in a similar mode to both Andy Warhol's Factory and many Renaissance artists. Last year, his art piece "Hanging Heart" sold at Sotheby's auction house for $23.6 million becoming the most expensive piece by a living artist ever auctioned. It was bought by the Gagosian Gallery which also purchased another Koons sculpture entitled "Diamond (Blue)" for $11.8 million from Christie's auction house.

JEFF KOONS ON THE ROOF - new exhibit at the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART's CANTOR ROOF GARDEN

Yesterday, I visited the new JEFF KOONS exhibit at the Cantor Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the previously unexhibited works of the pop artist. I took photos of the three sculptures: COLORING BOOK, a silhouette of Piglet from a "Winnie the Pooh" coloring book, BALLOON DOG (YELLOW),and SACRED HEART (RED/GOLD), a chocolate heart wrapped in shiny red. All sculptures are glossily lacquered stainless steel works.

From the NEW YORK TIMES Art Review by Ken Johnson:

With its breathtaking, panoramic views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline, the Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art may strike you as an excellent place to mount a seasonal outdoor sculpture show, which it does every year. In truth, it is an inhospitable site for sculpture, as demonstrated by the 2008 display that opens on Tuesday: three wonderful, previously unexhibited works by the celebrated Pop artist Jeff Koons.

Each of these sculptures is a greatly enlarged, glossily lacquered, stainless-steel representation of something small: a toy dog made of twisted-together balloons; a chocolate valentine heart wrapped in red foil, standing en pointe; and a silhouette of Piglet from a “Winnie the Pooh” coloring book, randomly colored as if by a small child.

They are mischievously meaningful works. With its pneumatic, sausagelike parts, “Balloon Dog (Yellow)” is a sly Trojan Horse: it seems innocent but is loaded with aesthetic and erotic perversity. “Sacred Heart (Red/Gold)” acidly comments on the commercial debasement of emotional and religious experience. “Coloring Book” reflects the youth-obsessed infantilism of modern culture and society.

But placed on the architecturally nondescript patio, where there are also shaded areas for patrons of the Roof Garden Cafe, the sculptures too easily turn into benign, decorative accessories.

The biggest problem is scale. Seen in an indoor gallery, the elephantine, shiny metallic “Balloon Dog (Yellow),” which rises to 10 feet at its highest point, would have a weirdly imposing, slightly menacing presence. On the roof it appears dwarfed by the vast sky and by the open expanses of space to the south and west of the museum.

The intimacy of Mr. Koons’s sculpture is also diminished. Perfectionist attention to detail is one of his work’s most compelling aspects: note the exactingly formed knot that serves as the balloon dog’s nose, or the folds, pleats and stretch marks in the heart’s wrapper. The distracting outdoor environment, though, discourages careful, contemplative looking.

Because it is both the biggest and the simplest, the 18 ½-foot-tall “Coloring Book” is the least undermined by its environment. But it is also the least interesting formally, being little more than a flat, irregularly contoured slab whose colors are thin and watery.

Their setting aside, Mr. Koons’s sculptures remain intellectually and sensuously exciting objects — “Balloon Dog” is a masterpiece — and they are worth visiting under any circumstances.

“Jeff Koons on the Roof” is on view through Oct. 26 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; (212) 535-7710 or metmuseum.org.

The RED BALLOON FLOWER by JEFF KOONS

Outside the new 7 World Trade Center is a small plaza where a striking sculpture is located. It's called BALLOON FLOWER (Red) by internationally acclaimed artist, JEFF KOONS. Overlooking Ground Zero, the art installation is located in a park bounded by Greenwich Street, Vesey Street and West Broadway. The Balloon Flower consists of seven elements: six large blossom- or balloon-like shapes of various sizes, and one bar that can be taken as a flower stem. They are all aglow in bright red, so that they can see themselves and the world around them reflected. It's been said that the true appeal of the Balloon Flower is that it attracts people to look at it, and then reflects them back at themselves.

Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania. As a young man, Koons revered Salvador Dalí. Koons attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and studied painting. After college he worked as a Wall Street commodities broker, while establishing himself as an artist. He gained recognition in the 1980s, and subsequently set up a factory-like studio in a SoHo loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway in New York. This had over 30 staff, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work—in a similar mode to both Andy Warhol's Factory and many Renaissance artists. Last year, his art piece "Hanging Heart" sold at Sotheby's auction house for $23.6 million becoming the most expensive piece by a living artist ever auctioned. It was bought by the Gagosian Gallery which also purchased another Koons sculpture entitled "Diamond (Blue)" for $11.8 million from Christie's auction house.