Mysterious Koons Popeye Appears at Sotheby’s for $25m

You’ll remember that a Koons Popeye statue was at the center of the row between Koons’s dealer Larry Gagosian and Ronald Perleman a few years ago. This statue does not seem to be the granite one that was at issue in the contretemps. But the appearance of this 7ft-tall work that is an edition of 3 (the other two are owned by whom? Gagosian and Steven Cohen, of course) does raise some questions about the consignor. The $25m estimate raises all sorts of other questions.