Contemporary Art Evening Auction

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Black / Jazz: Property from the Collection of Enrico Navarra

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT | BLACK

Auction Closed

October 29, 12:08 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

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Black / Jazz: Property from the Collection of Enrico Navarra

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

1960 - 1988

BLACK


titled; signed, titled and dated 86 on the reverse

acrylic, oil, graphite, crayon and Xerox on wood 

49 ¾ by 36 ½ by 11 ½ in. 126.4 by 92.7 by 29.2 cm.

Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya (acquired from the above)

Acquired by the present owner from the above in March 1996

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1992, p. 210, illustrated in color

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1st Ed., Vol. I, Paris 1996, p. 270, illustrated in color, and p. 395 (text)

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2nd Ed., Vol. I, Paris 1996, p. 318, illustrated in color, and p. 401 (text)

Exh. Cat., New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1999, p. 265, illustrated in color 

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., Vol. I, Paris 2000, p. 320, illustrated in color, and illustrated in color on the slipcase (detail)

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., Vol. II, Paris 2000, p. 248, no. 1, illustrated in color, and p. 249 (text), and illustrated in color on the slipcase (detail)

Olivier Sultan, Les Afriques: 36 Artistes Contemporains, Paris 2004, p. 24 (text)

Valerio Terraroli, Art of the Twentieth Century: Neo-Avant-gardes, Postmodern and Global Art, 1969-1999, New York 2009, p. 321, illustrated

Eric Fretz, Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography, Santa Barbara 2010, p. 150 (text)

Alison Levasseur, “Drake Curates Music for a Private Art Sale at Sotheby’s,” Architectural Digest, 30 April 2015, illustrated in color (online)

James Tarmy, “Do You Have the Same Artistic Taste as Drake?,” Bloomberg, 21 May 2015, illustrated in color (online)

Flavia Annechini, “Jean-Michel Basquiat al MUDEC,” Darsmagazine, 3 November 2016, illustrated in color (in installation at MUDEC, 2016) (online)

Fred Hoffman, The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York 2017, p. 6, illustrated in color, and p. 243 (text)

Exh. Cat., São Paulo, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Obras de Coleçãu Mugrabi, 2018, p. 147, illustrated in color

Tokyo, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: New Works, February 1987, no. 1

Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1996 

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts; and Taichung, Taiwan, Taichung Museum, Jean-Michel Basquiat, January - June 1997, p. 78 

Seoul, Gallery Hyundai, Jean-Michel Basquiat, July - August 1997, p. 68

Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum; and Marugame, M.I.M.O.C.A., Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 1997 - May 1998, p. 88 

São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings/Works on Paper, June - August 1998, p. 90 

Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Basquiat a Venezia, June - October 1999, p. 102, illustrated in color

Naples, Museo Civico Castel Nuovo, Basquiat a Napoli, December 1999 - March 2000, p. 114, illustrated in color

Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna della Città di Lugano, Jean-Michel Basquiat, March - June 2005, p. 98, illustrated in color, and p. 170, no. 50, illustrated

Milan, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show, September 2006 - January 2007, p. 286, no. 151 (text), and p. 288, illustrated in color 

Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Borderline: Artists Between Sanity and Madness, February - June 2013

New York, Sotheby's S|2, I Like It Like This: S|2 x Drake, April - June 2015 

Milan, MUDEC, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 2016 - February 2017