Contemporary Art Day Auction
Contemporary Art Day Auction
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Plush Safe He Think
Auction Closed
November 17, 06:59 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960 - 1988
Plush Safe He Think
titled
acrylic and oilstick on board
27 1/2 by 26 3/4 in. 69.9 by 68 cm.
framed: 28 1/4 by 27 1/4 in. 71.8 by 69.2 cm.
Executed in 1981.
Please note this lot is subject to a guarantee and an irrevocable bid.
Collection of Diego Cortez, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 19 February 1988, Lot 115
Private Collection
Christie's, London, 29 June 1999, Lot 73
Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
Collection of Johnny Depp, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 2003)
Christie's, London, 30 June 2016, Lot 139
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Sotheby's, New York, 19 February 1988, Lot 115
Private Collection
Christie's, London, 29 June 1999, Lot 73
Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
Collection of Johnny Depp, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 2003)
Christie's, London, 30 June 2016, Lot 139
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., Vol. II, Paris, 2000, p. 72, no. 8, illustrated in color
Queens, MoMA PS1, New York/New Wave, February - April 1981
Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, Jean-Michel Basquiat Dipinti, 2002, p. 65, illustrated in color
London, Barbican Art Gallery; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Basquiat: Boom for Real, September 2017 - May 2018, pp. 52 (text), 66, 74 and 93, illustrated in color
Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, Jean-Michel Basquiat Dipinti, 2002, p. 65, illustrated in color
London, Barbican Art Gallery; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Basquiat: Boom for Real, September 2017 - May 2018, pp. 52 (text), 66, 74 and 93, illustrated in color