Jeff Koons - Flowers (Mary Boone Gallery invitation with original drawing, hand signed), 2004, 2025

Flowers (Mary Boone Gallery invitation with original drawing, hand signed), 2004, 2025

Original signed drawing on two-sided Mary Boone invitation card

This unique and highly evocative work by Jeff Koons unites art historical exhibition ephemera and the artist's own hand into a one-of-a-kind object. The work originates as a rare fold-out invitation to Flowers, a 2004 group exhibition held at the legendary Mary Boone Gallery, New York (at the time, located at 745 Fifth Avenue, across from the Plaza Hotel), presented as a prelude to a major exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Warhol Museum. The exhibition brought together an exceptional roster of artists, incuding Andy Warhol, Barbara Kruger, Ross Bleckner, Mark Quinn, David Salle and Kevin Zucker.
On the front of the invitation, a printed floral image by Warhol appears alongside a floral image by Koons - establishing a visual and conceptual dialogue between two of the most influential figures in contemporary art. In a remarkable and inteimate gesture, Koons has returned to this printed composition and hand-embellished a new flower, drawing directly over the image and thereby transforming the invitation into a unique work. He further inscribed and signed the piece in person on November 13, 2025 providing impeccable, first hand provenance.
The result is a layered and visually striking composition: Warhol's iconic flower, Koons's printed flower, and Koons's hand-drawn intervention coexist within a single object, collapsing distinctions between reproduction and originality, ephemera and artwork. The piece reflects Koons's enduring engagement with themes of repetition, authorship, and the elevation of the familiar into the singular.
Elegantly presented in a custom, museum quality white wood frame with archival pocket corners and double sided plexiglass, the work is fully visible from both front and back, preserving the integrity of the original invitation while emphasizing its transformation. The presentation underscores the object's dual nature as both historical artifact and unique work.
For fans nostalgic for the Mary Boone era, and for fans of Koons as well as Warhol and the other artists featured in this exhibition - as well as, of course, collectors of Flower Art - this unique piece of contemporary art history is a must have. It's a great conversation piece.
Measurements:
Framed
14 inches (vertical) by 21 inches (horizontal) by 2 inches

Invitation with original drawing:
7 inches (vertical) x 14 inches (horizontal)

More about Jeff Koons
Born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1955, Koons studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a BFA from the former in 1976. Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, his work has evolved from small-scale assemblages of toys and found objects to his now iconic monumental works, including huge balloon animals rendered in mirror-polished stainless steel, as well as flowering topiary sculptures, such as Puppy (1992), which is permanently installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain.

Koons draws attention to the continuity of images as they pass through time, combining art historical reference with vernacular images and objects, from common suburban products and mass media to symbols of sexuality and transcendence. Beginning with Inflatables (1978–79), a series inspired by the readymade, Koons created six series of innovative works in less than a decade including Pre-New (1979–80), The New (1980–87), Equilibrium (1983–93), Luxury & Degradation (1986), and Statuary (1986). His engagement with popular culture expanded in the Banality series (1988), which featured sculptures of recognizable figures such as Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1988)—a nearly life-size gilded porcelain statue of the pop singer with his pet chimpanzee. In 1989, Koons presented Made in Heaven (1989–91), a series centered on him and his then-wife, Ilona Staller, in sexually explicit poses, frequently in fairy-tale settings, evoking the stark bodily presence of the nudes depicted by French Realist painters.