Puppy (sculpture)

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Puppy is a floral sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons. Since 1997, it has been on display outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The 12.4-metre (41 ft) sculpture depicts a West Highland White Terrier. It is decorated with 38,000 plants, which are replaced twice a year and watered by internal irrigation. Koons exhibited the first version of Puppy outside Arolsen Castle in Germany in 1992. The present version was exhibited outside the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for three months from December 1995, and has been in place in Bilbao since the Guggenheim's opening in October 1997. For three months in 2000, it was exhibited outside the Rockefeller Center in New York City.

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