Puppy (Jeff Koons)

Puppy is a floral sculpture by the American artist Jeff Koons that depicts a West Highland White Terrier. The work stands 12.4 metres tall and is covered with about 38,000 plants, mostly begonias, impatiens, marigolds and petunias, which are replaced twice a year and watered through an internal irrigation system. Koons first showed a smaller version outside Arolsen Castle in Germany in 1992 after he was not chosen for Documenta 9, and a taller permanent version with a steel frame was shown in Sydney from December 1995 to March 1996. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation bought that version, and it has stood outside the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao since the museum opened in October 1997. In 2000 it was shown for three months outside Rockefeller Center in New York, and in 2022 it was replanted with a mainly white design for the museum's 25th anniversary.