Well it isn't exactly a sculpture made of balloon, but instead a stainless steel sculpture which looks like your typical balloon twisted dog! How cool is that!?
Jeff Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects. Such as simple balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finished surfaces. His works were sold for substantial sums of money, including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. On November 12, 2013, Koons’s Orange balloon dog was sold at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York City for US$58.4 million, above its high US$55 million estimate, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction.
Here's a glimpse at other noteworthy balloon sculptures by Koons in recent years.
Balloon Swan (Blue), Balloon Monkey (Red), Balloon Rabbit (Yellow) at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City on May 9, 2013.
Tulips and Balloon Flower pictured on October 29, 2008, at the Neue National gallery in Berlin.
Jeff Koons poses in front of Balloon Venus, flanked by Roman marbles, at the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 19, 2012. The sculpture was based on “Venus of Willendorf” a curvaceous female figure made in the Paleolithic period that is thought to symbolize fertility.
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