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February 17, 2023 | 11:25pm
A porcelain Balloon Dog sculpture, comparable to this one, was smashed by an audience in Miami Thursday.
Elizabeth Lippman
Lucky for this art collector, the “you break it, you buy it” policy didn’t use.
A female appreciating a $42,000 “Balloon Dog” sculpture by world-renowned artist Jeff Koons mistakenly overturned the costly piece, which shattered on the flooring of a Miami gallery Thursday night.
The two-decade-old artwork satisfied its regrettable end throughout the very first day of Art Wynwood, a modern art fair in the city, the Miami Herald reported.
“When this thing fell to the ground, it was like how a car accident draws a huge crowd on the highway,” Stephen Gamson, a Wynwood-based artist and art collector, informed the Herald.
Gamson said gawkers at Bel-Air Fine Art’s cubicle were left questioning if the smashed porcelain might have become part of an efficiency art piece.
But the artist thinks the lady — determined as an art collector — simply slipped up by letting her interest get the very best of her. She might have questioned whether it was a genuine balloon, he hypothesized.
An art consultant at the gallery supported Gamson’s theory, informing the Herald it was simply a mishap.
Fortunately, the sculpture was covered by insurance coverage and didn’t cost the lady anything, the report said.
The smashed sculpture was a mini variation of Koons’ famous 12-foot-tall Balloon Dog sculpture that’s constructed out of mirror-polished stainless-steel and on display screen in Los Angeles.
Koons has actually developed a series of the pups in between 1994 and 2000 in a range of colors, sizes and product.
The piece that was damaged Thursday night stood about 15 inches high, was blue in color and was made from porcelain.
Koons’ work, particularly the dogs, bring a quite cent. One of the huge orange variations was offered in 2013 for $58.4 million, according to Time Magazine.
Koons did not instantly react to The Post’s ask for remark.
After another porcelain Balloon Dog smashed to bits in 2016, Koons told Page Six it mattered little to him.
“It’s a shame when anything like that happens but, you know, it’s just a porcelain plate,” he said. “We’re really lucky when it’s just objects that get broken, when there’s little accidents like that, because that can be replaced.”
Gamson still thinks the damaged pieces might be worth a great deal of money.
He said he approached a director and used to purchase the porcelain fragments on the area.
“I find value in it even when it’s broken,” Gamson said. “To me, it’s the story. It makes the art even more interesting.”
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