Q 01/05

Which Jeff Koons sculpture sold for $91.1 million in 2019, an auction record for a living artist?

A) Tulips

B) Rabbit

C) Cracked Egg

D) Diamond

Answer · why

B) Rabbit

Rabbit is a mirror-bright steel cast of an inflatable toy, and two of its three copies were first sold for just $40,000 each.

Q 02/05

Which pop star did Jeff Koons portray in gilded porcelain with a pet chimpanzee on his lap?

A) Elvis Presley

B) Bruce Springsteen

C) Michael Jackson

D) Stevie Wonder

Answer · why

C) Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson appears life-size with his chimp Bubbles, in a pose Koons adapted from a press photo. One of the three copies sold for $5.6 million in...

Q 03/05

Jeff Koons made a sculpture of which pop star for the cover of her 2013 album Artpop?

A) Lady Gaga

B) Katy Perry

C) Miley Cyrus

D) Rihanna

Answer · why

A) Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga recruited Koons in 2013, three years after meeting him at a Metropolitan Museum of Art fashion event where she performed.

Q 04/05

Jeff Koons's flower-covered Puppy has stood since 1997 outside which Spanish museum?

A) Museo del Prado

B) Reina Sofía Museum

C) Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

D) Guggenheim Bilbao

Answer · why

D) Guggenheim Bilbao

Guggenheim Bilbao was not the first home of Puppy: Koons made it in 1992 for a castle in Germany, and it was rebuilt beside Sydney Harbour before the ...

Q 05/05

A 2023 Miami art fair visitor shattered a $42,000 porcelain copy of which Jeff Koons sculpture?

A) Balloon Dog

B) Hanging Heart

C) Play-Doh

D) Cracked Egg

Answer · why

A) Balloon Dog

Balloon Dog fell off its pedestal and shattered on the floor of the fair. A full-size orange steel version had sold for $58.4 million in 2013.