Masters Wave 2: Jeff Koons returns for follow-up Louis Vuitton collection

US artist finds the Parisian maison's signature bags the perfect canvas

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Following his debut partnership with Louis Vuitton, which was launched in April this year, Jeff Koons returns to the 1854 founded Parisian brand with a follow-up collection. The second chapter of Louis Vuitton Masters sees the American contemporary artist turn to Claude Monet, Paul Gaugin and Édouard Manet for inspiration.

For Louis Vuitton Masters Wave 2, Koons has added colourful facsimiles of paintings including Claude Monet's Water Lilies (1916) and J.M.W. Turner's 1839 expert study of light Ancient Rome to Louis Vuitton signature bags and luggage, from Speedy to Noé. In 1892, Paul Gaugin imagined a distant paradise when painting Delightful Land (the tranquil setting was in part inspired by his own snapshots of the Buddhist temple of Borobudur on the island of Java, Indonesia). The painting now graces Louis Vuitton's roomy Keepall, bring the travel inspiration full circle.

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