About The Work
The Jeff Koons Donkey lithograph from the "Easy Fun" series of animal shapes was created in 1999. For this limited edition of only 99 impressions, Jeff Koons created a shaped outline of a Donkey, and used richly colored lithographic inks to simulate a watercolor effect, so the print looks unique.
Executed in 1999, Donkey is an exquisite and monumental ode to childhood and innocence that formed the central painting in Jeff Koons' Easy Fun series. Koons' Easyfun series came after the lengthy process of creating his Celebration, which have remained in production to this day. The Celebration series consisted of paintings and sculptures that also explored and celebrated childhood experiences. Koons himself explained that they were intended in part as postcards to his son, who was taken by his mother, La Cicciolina, to Italy following the end of their marriage. When he began the Easyfun series in 1999, childhood was on Koons' mind for very different reasons: he had remarried and had a young family again. Being a father and finding himself immersed in the world of childhood once more, Koons was able to appreciate the overwhelming power of the unique perspective we enjoy during youth and which is channeled so effectively in the visual feast of cereal, toys, and cream of Donkey.
Courtesy of Joseph K. Levene Art, Ltd.
About Jeff Koons
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Jeff Koons talks to Artspace about his new edition Flag II, 2024
- Interviews & Features: Art for Democracy: Bid or Buy Now
- Interviews & Features: How THE SKATEROOM founder stops kids wiping out
- Interviews & Features: ANATOMY OF AN ARTWORK Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am) 1987/ 2019 by Barbara Kruger
- Interviews & Features: 2020 Vision
Color Grano lithograph on paper
36.00 x 28.00 in
91.4 x 71.1 cm
This work is signed, numbered and dated by the artist on recto.
About The Work
The Jeff Koons Donkey lithograph from the "Easy Fun" series of animal shapes was created in 1999. For this limited edition of only 99 impressions, Jeff Koons created a shaped outline of a Donkey, and used richly colored lithographic inks to simulate a watercolor effect, so the print looks unique.
Executed in 1999, Donkey is an exquisite and monumental ode to childhood and innocence that formed the central painting in Jeff Koons' Easy Fun series. Koons' Easyfun series came after the lengthy process of creating his Celebration, which have remained in production to this day. The Celebration series consisted of paintings and sculptures that also explored and celebrated childhood experiences. Koons himself explained that they were intended in part as postcards to his son, who was taken by his mother, La Cicciolina, to Italy following the end of their marriage. When he began the Easyfun series in 1999, childhood was on Koons' mind for very different reasons: he had remarried and had a young family again. Being a father and finding himself immersed in the world of childhood once more, Koons was able to appreciate the overwhelming power of the unique perspective we enjoy during youth and which is channeled so effectively in the visual feast of cereal, toys, and cream of Donkey.
Courtesy of Joseph K. Levene Art, Ltd.
About Jeff Koons
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Jeff Koons talks to Artspace about his new edition Flag II, 2024
- Interviews & Features: Art for Democracy: Bid or Buy Now
- Interviews & Features: How THE SKATEROOM founder stops kids wiping out
- Interviews & Features: ANATOMY OF AN ARTWORK Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am) 1987/ 2019 by Barbara Kruger
- Interviews & Features: 2020 Vision
- This work is framed. Frame measurements are 49.00" x 41.25".
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