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Jeff Koons — Buster Keaton
Jeff Koons

Buster Keaton

A gleaming, mirror-polished sculpture captures the iconic silent film comedian Buster Keaton in Jeff Koons' signature hyper-reflective aesthetic. The work transforms Keaton's stoic, deadpan persona into a monument of pop culture celebration, merging nostalgia with the artist's hallmark obsession with surface, spectacle, and the nature of fame. As with much of Koons' oeuvre, the piece blurs the line between high art and mass entertainment, elevating a figure of popular culture to the realm of timeless artistic subject.

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Contemporary Art Evening Sale

November 11, 2013

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Jeff Koons, Buster Keaton

A gleaming, mirror-polished sculpture captures the iconic silent film comedian Buster Keaton in Jeff Koons' signature hyper-reflective aesthetic. The work transforms Keaton's stoic, deadpan persona into a monument of pop culture celebration, merging nostalgia with the artist's hallmark obsession with surface, spectacle, and the nature of fame. As with much of Koons' oeuvre, the piece blurs the line between high art and mass entertainment, elevating a figure of popular culture to the realm of timeless artistic subject.

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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Male Artist, Nostalgic Mood, Celebrated Artist, Contemporary Artist, Appropriation Art, American Artist, Pop Art, Celebrity Subject, Portrait, Kitsch Aesthetic, Neutral Tones, Figurative

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Collected by

Hamilton Selway Gallery, Derek Jones, Lisa Rembrandt, Alex Capecelatro