Jeff Koons Trivia Questions

'Puppy' is a 43-foot-tall West Highland White Terrier covered with approximately 70,000 living flowering plants, irrigated internally.

Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania on January 21, 1955. He later moved to New York.

Puppy is a 40-foot-tall flowering topiary of a West Highland White Terrier, created by Jeff Koons. First exhibited in Germany in 1992, it later became a permanent installation at the Guggenheim Bilbao in 1997.

It's actually fabricated from mirror-polished stainless steel with a transparent color coating, not glass at all.

Before his art career, Koons was a securities broker on Wall Street, which influenced his later themes of commerce and consumerism.

Although it appears inflatable, the sculpture is fabricated from stainless steel with a mirror finish, not actual balloons.

Jeff Koons married Ilona Staller, known as Cicciolina, in 1991. They had a son together.

His 'Rabbit' (1986) sold for $91.1 million in 2019, the highest for a living artist's sculpture at auction.

The sculpture is painted porcelain, not gold. A gold version would be impractically heavy and costly.

He married Ilona Staller (aka Cicciolina) in 1991; they collaborated on the 'Made in Heaven' series.

Jeff Koons studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art. He never attended Harvard.

The sculpture is actually made of painted porcelain with gold luster, not bronze. It was created in 1988.

He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, earning a BFA.

At Christie's New York in 2019, 'Rabbit' (1986) achieved $91.1 million, setting a record for a living artist at the time.

In 1997, he designed a locomotive and passenger cars for the German railway DB, decorated with colorful patterns.

The cover was designed by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. Jeff Koons was not involved in that project.