AGENCY
Ben Golik, Chief Creative Officer
Tom Kennedy, Art Director
Ieva Paulina, Art Director
Camila Gurgel, Copywriter
Graham Phillips, Chief Strategy Officer
Adam Reader, VP, Strategy Director
Hannah Kaplan, Account Planner
Georgia Graham-Leigh, Managing Director
Ashley Gullickson, Account Director
Clare Clarke, Executive Producer
Hero Studios
Alejandro Norman, Animation Director
Nil Serraima, Animator
Julian Reate, Animator
Wes Latta, Editor
Pilar Rico, Editor
Felt Music
Liz Williams, Music Supervisor
Charlie Tenku, Composer
SUMMARY
We were tasked with selling Jeff Koons' Rabbit, the very first of his mirrored balloon animals. Fraught with contradiction since it landed on earth in 1986, we leaned into the controversy to spark debate and encourage bidding among the few.
We sold the Ultimate Icon for $91.1MM, $30MM above the initial estimate. Rabbit set a world record for the sale of a Jeff Koons piece, a world record for sculpture, and a world record for the sale of a work by any living artist.