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Jeff Koons | Andy Warhol

Flowers

November 11–December 21, 2002
980 Madison Avenue, New York

Installation view Artwork, left to right: © Jeff Koons; © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Installation view

Artwork, left to right: © Jeff Koons; © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Installation view Artwork, top to bottom: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jeff Koons

Installation view

Artwork, top to bottom: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jeff Koons

Installation view Artwork, left to right: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jeff Koons

Installation view

Artwork, left to right: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jeff Koons

Installation view Artwork, left to right: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jeff Koons

Installation view

Artwork, left to right: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jeff Koons

Installation view Artwork, left to right: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jeff Koons

Installation view

Artwork, left to right: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jeff Koons

Works Exhibited

Jeff Koons, Wall Relief with Bird, 1991 Polychromed wood, 72 × 50 × 27 inches (182.9 × 127 × 68.6 cm), edition of 3

Jeff Koons, Wall Relief with Bird, 1991

Polychromed wood, 72 × 50 × 27 inches (182.9 × 127 × 68.6 cm), edition of 3

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1974 Pencil and dye on paper, 40 ½ × 27 ¼ inches (102.9 × 69.2 cm)

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1974

Pencil and dye on paper, 40 ½ × 27 ¼ inches (102.9 × 69.2 cm)

Jeff Koons, Large Vase of Flowers, 1991 Polychromed wood, 52 × 43 × 43 inches (132.1 × 109.2 × 109.2 cm)

Jeff Koons, Large Vase of Flowers, 1991

Polychromed wood, 52 × 43 × 43 inches (132.1 × 109.2 × 109.2 cm)

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1964 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 24 × 24 inches (61 × 61 cm)

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1964

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 24 × 24 inches (61 × 61 cm)

Jeff Koons, Flowers, 1986 Stainless steel, 12 ½ × 18 × 12 1/3 inches (32 × 46 × 31 cm), edition of 3

Jeff Koons, Flowers, 1986

Stainless steel, 12 ½ × 18 × 12 1/3 inches (32 × 46 × 31 cm), edition of 3

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1964 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 22 × 22 inches (55.9 × 55.9 cm)

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1964

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 22 × 22 inches (55.9 × 55.9 cm)

Andy Warhol, Daisy Waterfall (Rain Machine), 1970–71 Mixed media, 162 × 248 × 96 inches (411.5 × 630 × 243.8 cm)

Andy Warhol, Daisy Waterfall (Rain Machine), 1970–71

Mixed media, 162 × 248 × 96 inches (411.5 × 630 × 243.8 cm)

About

Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol. The exhibition will juxtapose the work of these two seminal Pop figures through their use of flower imagery in a range of media.

In a review following Warhol’s first show at Leo Castelli Gallery, David Bourdon described his Flowers canvases as “cutout gouaches by Matisse set adrift on Monet’s lily pond” (Village Voice, December 3, 1964). The exhibition features a variety of sizes and palettes of Warhol’s Flowers, illustrating the serialized nature of his work while simultaneously revealing the subtle individuality of each canvas. Drawings of flowers from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s will also be shown to provide context regarding the history of the flower as subject within Warhol’s oeuvre.

While some of Jeff Koons’s flower sculptures reference childhood objects and pleasures, others embody the oxymoronic concept of inanimate/animate objects, the still life, or nature morte. The exhibition will include early examples of Koons’s exploration of the flower motif and will span through the 1990s, encompassing sculptural works made of plastic, stainless steel, glass, and wood.

 Jeff Koons | Andy Warhol: Flowers offers a fresh view into two seminal contemporary artists’ manipulation and representation of natural beauty and form.

Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol at Paris Apartment Window, 1981

In Conversation
Christopher Makos and Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol’s Insiders at the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade is a group exhibition and shop takeover that feature works by Warhol and portraits of the artist by friends and collaborators including photographers Ronnie Cutrone, Michael Halsband, Christopher Makos, and Billy Name. To celebrate the occasion, Makos met with Gagosian director Jessica Beck to speak about his friendship with Warhol and the joy of the unexpected.

Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol: Silver Screen

In this video, Jessica Beck, director at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, sits down to discuss the three early paintings by Andy Warhol from 1963 featured in the exhibition Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, at Gagosian in Paris.

Alexander Calder poster for McGovern, 1972, lithograph

The Art History of Presidential Campaign Posters

Against the backdrop of the 2020 US presidential election, historian Hal Wert takes us through the artistic and political evolution of American campaign posters, from their origin in 1844 to the present. In an interview with Quarterly editor Gillian Jakab, Wert highlights an array of landmark posters and the artists who made them.

Allen Midgette in front of the Chelsea Hotel, New York, 2000. Photo: Rita Barros

I’ll Be Your Mirror: Allen Midgette

Raymond Foye speaks with the actor who impersonated Andy Warhol during the great Warhol lecture hoax in the late 1960s. The two also discuss Midgette’s earlier film career in Italy and the difficulty of performing in a Warhol film.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977, Polaroid Polacolor Type 108, 4 ¼ × 3 ⅜ inches (10.8 × 8.6 cm). The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Andy Warhol: From the Polaroid and Back Again

Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, considers the artist’s career-spanning use of Polaroid photography as part of his more expansive practice.

Andy Warhol catalogue. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1965.

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