The sculpture was created by central Pa. native Jeff Koons.
There’s a reason they tell you not to touch the art at an exhibit. It might fall and break into pieces.
That’s exactly what happened recently in Miami when a woman touched a balloon dog porcelain sculpture by York County native Jeff Koons valued at $42,000, and it shattered into pieces,The incident happened at a VIP preview event for Art Wynwood, a contemporary art fair in downtown Miami, the newspaper 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, told the Miami Herald. Gamson told the paper he saw an older woman tap the sculpture, immediately knocking it off the pedestal.Bénédicte Caluch, an art advisor with Bel-Air Fine Art, told the paper that the artwork was covered by insurance.
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