A printed coloring book page of characters from Winne the Pooh colored over with loose lines of…

Untitled (Winnie the Pooh Series)

Artist Jeff Koons (American, born 1955)

Date1997

MediumFelt-tip pen and printed ink on paper

DimensionsImage (Sight): 10 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches (27.3 × 19.7 cm)
Framed: 16 3/4 × 13 1/2 × 1 1/4 inches (42.5 × 34.3 × 3.2 cm)

Portfolio/Series"Winnie the Pooh" series

Credit LineKirk Varnedoe Collection, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, Gift of Jeff Koons.

Object number2006.15

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Copyright© Jeff Koons. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextIn this work, a page from a A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh coloring book features Pooh’s companion Piglet. Koons “colored” the character by taking a magic marker to the page over various zones. From this work came an 18-foot-tall sculpture, Coloring Book (1997–2005), a part of his larger Celebrations series. In the fabrication of the sculpture, Koons removed Piglet from the composition, which resulted in a more abstracted sculptural form. The artist plays with ideas of taste, pleasure, celebrity, and commerce, and is known for turning banal objects and subjects into high art icons. Koons has appropriated everything from advertisements and vacuum cleaners to cartoon characters, collectibles, and plastic toys.

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