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Jeff Koons Gazing Ball For Sale
Jeff Koons
Gazing Ball
About this work
Jeff Koons’s Gazing Ball series, launched in 2013, presents a striking fusion of classical art and reflective modernity. Each work in the series features a high-gloss blue glass sphere—Koons’s signature “gazing ball”—placed on or in front of a carefully crafted replica of a canonical artwork, Greco-Roman sculpture, or Old Master painting. By juxtaposing these historical icons with a contemporary, mass-produced object, Koons invites viewers to quite literally see themselves in art history. The mirrored surface of the ball reflects the viewer, the artwork, and the surrounding space, collapsing centuries of art into a single moment of interactive experience. Conceptually, the Gazing Ball series explores themes of time, beauty, and authorship. Koons does not attempt to hide the fact that the paintings and sculptures are reproductions; instead, he emphasizes the act of viewing and the relationship between the viewer and the object. The blue ball acts as both a focal point and a philosophical device—it draws attention to the original while simultaneously destabilizing it. In doing so, Koons democratizes the act of engagement with great works of art, turning passive observation into active participation, and blurs the line between reverence and reinterpretation.
Price on Application
Auction History
Gazing Ball (da Vinci Mona Lisa) · Jeff Koons · Christie's · 2021-10 · $62,500
Gazing Ball (da Vinci Mona Lisa) · Jeff Koons · Phillips · 2022-04 · $52,920
GAZING BALL (VAN GOGH WHEATFIELD WITH CYPRESSES) · Jeff Koons · Sotheby's · 2020-10 · $50,000
Gazing Ball (da Vinci Mona Lisa) · Jeff Koons · Christie's · 2025-07 · $47,880
Gazing Ball (Manet Olympia) · Jeff Koons · Phillips · 2023-06 · $38,100
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About the Gazing Balls Series
Jeff Koons Gazing Ball Series | Guy Hepner New York
Market Authority & Performance
Jeff Koons maintains his position as the most commercially significant living American artist, with auction results that continue to define market benchmarks across contemporary art. His Rabbit (1986) achieved $91.1 million at Christie's in May 2019, establishing the record for a living artist at auction—a distinction that underscores the sustained institutional and collector demand for Koons's major works. The earlier sale of Balloon Dog (Orange) at $58.4 million through Christie's in 2013 similarly demonstrated the artist's capacity to command exceptional prices across multiple series.
The Gazing Ball series has emerged as a particularly compelling segment within Koons's market, with recent auction activity confirming strong collector appetite. November 2025 witnessed three significant results: Gazing Ball (Klimt Kiss) (2019), Gazing Ball (Perugino Madonna and Child with Four Saints) (2017), and Gazing Ball (Gauguin Delightful Land) (2017) each realized $635,000 at auction. This consistent pricing across multiple works indicates market confidence in the series as a whole, rather than isolated enthusiasm for individual compositions.
Guy Hepner has facilitated $1,363,999 in Jeff Koons transactions, establishing direct expertise in navigating the acquisition and placement of works by this market-defining artist. According to the Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report 2025, the global art market reached $57.5 billion in 2024, with the 2026 report confirming a return to growth throughout 2025—conditions that favor established contemporary artists with proven auction histories.
Series Context & Conceptual Framework
Initiated in 2013, the Gazing Ball series represents Koons's sustained engagement with art historical canonicity and the phenomenology of viewer experience. The works incorporate hand-blown glass spheres—their reflective cobalt surfaces referencing the gazing balls found in Victorian gardens and American working-class yards—positioned against meticulous reproductions of masterworks spanning Western art history.
Koons's selection of source imagery is deliberately encyclopedic, drawing from Renaissance devotional paintings, Baroque dynamism, Impressionist innovations, and Romantic landscapes. Each pairing creates what the artist describes as a democratization of aesthetic experience: the viewer's reflection appears within the sphere, situating the contemporary observer directly within the historical continuum of artistic achievement.
The series has received significant institutional attention, with Gagosian—Koons's representing gallery—mounting dedicated exhibitions that have traveled internationally. This institutional framework, combined with museum acquisitions and critical discourse, has established the Gazing Ball works as central to understanding Koons's late-career production.
Technical Specifications & Production
The Gazing Ball works available through Guy Hepner comprise archival pigment prints on Innova rag paper, paired with hand-blown glass spheres. This edition format maintains the conceptual integrity of Koons's vision while offering accessibility beyond the unique sculptures and paintings that anchor the series.
Production specifications include:
Print Medium: Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, selected for its museum-grade archival properties and capacity to render the chromatic complexity of source paintings with exceptional fidelity.
Glass Component: Each work incorporates a glass gazing ball, hand-blown to Koons's specifications. The reflective surface quality is essential to the work's function, creating the phenomenological experience of viewer inclusion that defines the series concept.
Blue Dog (2021): This related work employs French Limoges porcelain with chromatic coating, representing Koons's continued exploration of reflective surfaces and art historical reference through sculptural form. The February 2026 auction result of EUR 36,194 positions this work as an accessible entry point within Koons's production.
Notable Works & Market Performance
Gazing Ball (Klimt Kiss) (2019) Drawing from Gustav Klimt's iconic 1907-1908 masterwork, this composition pairs one of art history's most recognized images with Koons's reflective intervention. The November 2025 result of $635,000 confirms collector recognition of this pairing's cultural resonance.
Gazing Ball (Perugino Madonna and Child with Four Saints) (2017) Engaging Renaissance devotional traditions through Perugino's harmonious composition, this work achieved $635,000 in November 2025, demonstrating market appetite for the series's engagement with earlier historical periods.
Gazing Ball (Gauguin Delightful Land) (2017) Referencing Paul Gauguin's Post-Impressionist exploration of Tahitian subjects, this work's $635,000 result completes a trio of consistent pricing that signals market stability across the series.
Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass) (2019) Engaging Édouard Manet's scandalous 1863 canvas—itself a work about art historical dialogue—this composition demonstrates Koons's strategic selection of source material that carries its own discourse on artistic tradition.
Investment Considerations
The Gazing Ball series occupies a strategic position within Koons's market structure. While unique sculptures and paintings command prices reaching eight figures, the edition works offer exposure to Koons's conceptual program at price points demonstrating consistent performance. The November 2025 cluster of $635,000 results establishes current market expectations with unusual clarity.
Several factors support continued collector interest: Koons's unassailable auction history, institutional representation through Gagosian, ongoing museum engagement, and the series's conceptual accessibility. The works function simultaneously as aesthetic objects and as participatory experiences—qualities that translate across collecting contexts from private residences to corporate collections.
Acquisition Through Guy Hepner
Guy Hepner, New York, offers collector access to Jeff Koons Gazing Ball works with the market expertise established through $1,363,999 in documented transactions. Available works span the series's art historical range, from Renaissance devotional imagery through Romantic landscape to Post-Impressionist innovation.
Contact Guy Hepner to discuss current availability, condition reporting, and acquisition strategy for Jeff Koons Gazing Ball series works.
About Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons Prints For Sale
Jeff Koons prints for sale at Guy Hepner Gallery in New York include editions from his Celebration series, Banality works, and Balloon Dog imagery — as well as unique works on paper and rare multiples from across his career. For collectors seeking Jeff Koons art for sale, Guy Hepner at 177 Tenth Avenue, New York offers expert guidance, full provenance documentation, and access to authenticated Koons works across the full range of his edition and print output.
Jeff Koons (b. 1955, York, Pennsylvania) is one of the defining and most provocative figures of American art since the 1980s — an artist whose monumental, technically flawless works challenge the line between high art and popular culture, between desire and kitsch, between critique and celebration. Koons studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, before spending several years as a commodities broker on Wall Street — an experience that deepened his understanding of markets, desire, and the mechanics of perceived value. He began exhibiting in the early 1980s with The New series, placing mass-market vacuum cleaners in illuminated Plexiglas vitrines and presenting consumer goods as pristine, unreachable objects of desire.
His 1986 Statuary series — stainless steel sculptures cast from inflatable toys and novelty objects, their surfaces mirror-polished to an unearthly perfection — established the visual language that would define his career. The Rabbit, a stainless steel casting of an inflatable Easter bunny, is among the most discussed and reproduced sculptures in contemporary art.
Koons' Major Series and Works
Koons' career unfolds across a series of distinct campaigns, each representing a major conceptual and technical project:
- The New (1980–83) — vacuum cleaners in illuminated vitrines; the beginning of his engagement with consumer desire and pristine surface
- Equilibrium (1985) — basketballs suspended in aquarium tanks; a meditation on aspiration, class, and entropy
- Statuary (1986) — stainless steel castings of inflatable toys, including Rabbit (auction record: $91,075,000 at Christie's, 2019)
- Banality (1988) — hand-painted porcelain and gilded wood sculptures of Michael Jackson, Pink Panther, and other popular icons; the series that announced his most provocative engagement with mass culture
- Made in Heaven (1989–91) — billboard-scale works of deliberately transgressive content, among the most controversial works in contemporary art
- Celebration (1994–present) — his most ambitious and commercially successful project: monumental stainless steel balloon animal sculptures including Balloon Dog, Tulips, Hanging Heart, Diamond, and Sacred Heart. Balloon Dog (Orange) achieved $58,405,000 at Christie's in November 2013.
- Gazing Ball (2013–20) — hand-blown mirrored spheres set against large-scale reproductions of Old Master paintings, exploring reflection, desire, and the history of Western art
Jeff Koons Auction Records and Market
Koons holds one of the most remarkable market records in contemporary art. Rabbit (1986) set a record of $91,075,000 at Christie's in May 2019 — at the time the highest price ever achieved at auction for a living artist. Balloon Dog (Orange) achieved $58,405,000 at Christie's in November 2013. Major Celebration series works consistently command eight-figure results. His prints and edition multiples — produced in partnership with leading publishers and offered in tightly limited editions — are among the most actively traded in the contemporary market, offering collectors access to his visual language at more accessible price points.
Edition prints featuring Balloon Dog, Celebration, and Banality imagery have traded between $15,000 and $200,000 at auction, depending on edition size, subject, condition, and provenance. Works on paper and unique studies are increasingly sought as collectors engage with the full range of his practice beyond the monumental sculptures.
Jeff Koons Prints and Editions: What to Look For
Series: Celebration series prints and Balloon Dog imagery carry the strongest market demand and most consistent auction performance. Banality works have strong historical significance. Prints related to the Gazing Ball series are increasingly valued for their engagement with art history.
Edition size: Koons produces tightly limited editions; smaller runs and artist proofs command significant premium. Original publisher documentation and certificates of authenticity are essential.
Condition: Koons' prints are typically produced on premium substrates with archival inks; works maintained in UV-protected framing with stable storage hold value most reliably.
Provenance: Gallery provenance from Gagosian, Zwirner, or other authorised dealers strengthens value. Exhibition history and reproduction in major catalogues is a further value indicator.
Authenticity: Works should be authenticated through the Koons studio and supported by original publisher documentation. The technical specifications of Koons' prints are precisely documented, allowing for detailed verification.
Jeff Koons' Institutional Impact
Koons' work is held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, Tate Modern, The Broad in Los Angeles, and the Palace of Versailles, which hosted a landmark exhibition of his work in 2008. His Bouquet of Tulips sculpture was installed outside the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2019. Each institutional acquisition confirms his canonical position in contemporary art history and the enduring institutional demand for his work.
Buy Jeff Koons Art For Sale at Guy Hepner Gallery, New York
Guy Hepner has extensive experience placing Jeff Koons art for sale with collectors worldwide. Our gallery at 177 Tenth Avenue, New York brings particular strength to his prints, editions, and multiples, offering expert guidance on acquisition, valuation, and collection strategy. We bring transparent pricing, full provenance documentation, and direct access to the secondary market for Koons works at every price level.
Whether you are seeking Jeff Koons prints for sale in a specific series, a unique work on paper, or a major Celebration series multiple, Guy Hepner provides the authentication assurance, market expertise, and collector connections to support every acquisition. We offer free, confidential valuations for those looking to sell Koons works, and maintain active relationships with buyers at every level of the Koons market.