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Girl with Lobster, 2009

From Re-Object/Mythos
Digital pigment print (Ditone) on Innova paper, 74.4 x 61 cm (29¼ x 24 in), edition of 45, signed and numbered.

Jeff Koons’ Girl with Lobster is an edition that stages actress Gretchen Mol in her role as Bettie Page with an iconic inflatable lobster. A silver, reflective line drawing in the foreground alludes to fertility, Mother Nature, and Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du monde, thereby merging art historical references with contemporary visual language. In his portrait composition, Jeff Koons connects art historical influences from Dalí and Duchamp with a modern aesthetic. The work plays on the tension between fetish and innocence, sensuality and provocation – a commentary on the cultural staging of eroticism.