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

April 11, 2014 by Marion Maneker

9141 Koons, Popeye

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.

 

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