SCULPTURE OF JEFF KOONS

SOLD FOR A RECORD SUM !!

A record-breaking sales price, the latest being held by the British painter David Hockney and his painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), auctioned at $ 90.3 million last November.

For the American artist it is a nice revenge since he was already the record holder with his Balloon Dog, before David Hockney stole the show.

The Rabbit represents the steel casting of a rabbit and is part of a series of three sculptures made by Jeff Koons in 1986.

It is one of the best-known works of the artist who has shaken up the conventions of the world of the arts. Top of 104 centimeters, it comes from the collection of Samuel Irving Newhouse, former boss of the press group Condé Nast, which includes magazines Vanity Fair, Vogue and The New Yorker.

Jeff Koons, aged 64, has been a regular source of controversy since the 1980s, notably with his paintings and sculptures in which he copied with the former Italian film star La Cicciolina, whom he married in 1991, before being divorced in 1994.