Rabbit
1986
Jeff Koons created Rabbit in 1986 as a cast stainless steel sculpture that masterfully transforms an inflatable toy bunny into a monumental and mirror polished artwork. The reflective surface captures and distorts the surrounding environment, inviting viewers to see themselves within the piece and blurring the boundary between art and consumer culture. As one of the most iconic and sought after works in the history of contemporary art, Rabbit set a world record auction price of over $91 million in 2019, making it the most expensive work ever sold by a living artist at that time. Collectors regard this edition as a cornerstone of any serious contemporary art collection and a defining example of the Neo Pop movement.
- Medium
- Stainless steel
- Location
- The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
- Spotted At
- Museum · The BroadView on map
Artists in conversation
Takashi Murakami
Japanese · b. 1962
Murakami similarly transforms kawaii consumer toy culture and inflatable balloon aesthetics into high art objects with pristine polished surfaces, directly paralleling Koons's elevation of a cheap inflatable bunny into a monumental collectible sculpture worth tens of millions.
Damien Hirst
British · b. 1965
Hirst shares Koons's use of mirror polished stainless steel surfaces and the deliberate transformation of everyday objects into record breaking auction commodities, with works like his diamond encrusted skull blurring the line between consumer spectacle and fine art in the same provocative manner.
Urs Fischer
Swiss · b. 1973
Fischer creates large scale hyper reflective sculptural works that similarly reference toy like and cartoon inflated forms, using industrial fabrication and mirror finish materials to monumentalize playful consumer objects into serious gallery and museum installations.
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