Pop artist Jeff Koons collaborates with Dom Perignon in a limited edition ‘Balloon Venus’

Fans of the pop artist and sculptor Jeff Koons — and they are legion — will have the chance to own a sculpture he’s created in a collaboration with the prestige Champagne house Dom Pérignon. To celebrate the release of the 2003 Rosé Champagne, Koons and Dom Pérignon have collaborated on a unique limited edition of the vintage Rosé housed in Koons’ polyurethane resin sculpture “The Balloon Venus for Dom Pérignon.�

Adapted from the original Balloon Venus in high chromium stainless steel currently on exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan, only a few hundred of “The Balloon Venus for Dom Pérignon� will be available worldwide at the retail price of — get this — $20,000.

If that sounds steep, consider that Koons’ �Tulips� sculpture sold at Christie’s last November for a whopping $33 million and change.

“I’m very proud of the ‘Balloon Venus,’� says Koons. “It’s a work that I enjoy and I think really represents my oeuvre of work. ‘Balloon Venus’ represents the continuation of life’s energy. A great vintage also represents the vintages that will come, and so it’s about the continuation of something. It’s a continued creative process.�

So picture this eye-catching sculpture on your sideboard. It opens to reveal a bottle of Dom Pérignon 2003 Rosé dressed up in the same flaming fuchsia as the sculpture. So how’s the Champagne? The house describes it this way: “Its colour is deep, with light amber and copper tints. The wine’s bouquet erupts theatrically from its silken fleshy body, just as the sculpture’s reflective surface envelop the viewing in a dynamic invitation to tasting. “

Sexy, no? For the Champagne afficionado and art lover who has everything.

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