Jean-Michel Basquiat

New City Editions, Venice
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Christie's, New York, May 12, 2005, Lot 561
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

New York, Vrej Baghoomian, Inc., Jean-Michel Basquiat, October - November 1989, p. 69, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paintings, Sculptures, Works on Paper and Drawings, 1989, pp. 36-37 (another example exhibited)
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; Recife, Museu de Arte Moderna; Sao Paulo, Pinacoteca, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Obras sobre Papeis, 1997-1998, pp. 102-103 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings and Drawings, 1980 - 1988, February - March 1998, no. 17, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Richard Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1992, p. 243, illustrated in color
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean-Michel Basquiat: King for a Decade, Japan, 1997, p. 80, illustrated in color
Tony Shafrazi, Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999, p. 175, illustrated in color
Enrico Navarra and Richard Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, Paris, 1999, pp. 342-343, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is clean and intact and the irregularities observable at the edges are inherent to the paper. There is a soft ripple to the sheet which has been secured to the back of the frame at the corners and intermittently along the edges. This work is framed under Plexiglas.
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