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Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled

Auction Closed

November 21, 01:38 AM GMT

Estimate

1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished European Collection 

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1960 - 1988 


Untitled

oilstick on paper

11 ⅞ by 17 ⅞ in.

30.2 by 43.2 cm.

Executed in 1981.

Private Collection, Rhode Island (by 1988)

Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's London, 26 October 2000, lot 301 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Cultural Services of the Embassy of France in the United States, Jean Michel Basquiat: French Collections, 2007, p. 126, illustrated in color

Providence, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1900 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections, January - May 1988, p. 124 (text) (titled Head)

Paris, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Basquiat, September - November 1990, p. 70, illustrated in color (incorrectly dated 1988)

Shanghai, Duolun Museum of Modern Art and Beijing, Imperial City Art Museum, Jean-Michel Basquiat, February - April 2006, p. 138, illustrated

San Juan, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Una antología para Puerto Rico, October 2006 - January 2007, p. 83, illustrated in color

New York, Van de Weghe, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, March - June 2007, p. 13, illustrated in color (in installation) and p. 118, illustrated in color

Cotonou, Fondation Zinsou, Jean-Michel Basquiat in Cotonou: Works on Paper, September - November 2007, p. 126

Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 2018 - January 2019, no. 14, p. 72, illustrated in color

Provence, Château La Coste, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, August - October 2019, p. 6, illustrated in color (in installation) and pp. 122-23, illustrated in color

Paris, Galerie Gradiva, Résonance, Jean-Michel Basquiat et l’Univers Kongo, September - November 2022, p. 167, illustrated in color

New York, Almine Rech, The Echo of Picasso, November - December 2023