Balloon Dog in 'BLUE'. Collector's item. Very rare color! Original packaging and certificate available. Numbering at the bottom of the legs. This is the first rare edition limited to 999 pieces worldwide. This is No. 709. Careful, fast and insured shipping. More info: Jeffrey “Jeff” Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist whose work is dominated by the themes of banality and seduction. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. Jeff Koons is without a doubt one of the most important living artists and his work is included in the most prominent contemporary (museum) collections in the world. Koons's merit lies in the incorporation of kitschy elements in 'Art with the capital A', which is why his work is called postmodernist, in the same breath as that of Andy Warhol. Koon's work has similarities to Pop Art, in that he takes elements from lower art and incorporates them into higher art. His work is considered to belong to the Neo Pop Art category, where in the case of Koons one speaks of überkitsch: kitsch that is so strongly encouraged that it can no longer be enjoyed and that is precisely the reason for its artistry. Koons's works sell for astronomical sums, for example, in 2013 during a contemporary art auction at Christie's in New York, Koons's Balloon Dog Orange was sold for more than 58 million dollars, the most expensive work ever for a living artist. Jeff Koons has made a number of limited reproductions of the Balloon Dog, which are available at Kunsthuizen.