Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Paddle Ball Game

JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Paddle Ball Game
stamped 'copyright jeff koons 2000 for the deutsche guggenheim berlin' (on the reverse of the handle)
thermoprint on birchwood, painted metal, wooden ball and string
12³⁄₈ x 8 x 2⁵⁄₈in. (31.4 x 20.2 x 6.8cm.)
Executed in 2000, this work is from an unnumbered edition of nine hundred

Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Düsseldorf.
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above in 2002).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

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