Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

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Property from an Important European Collection

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict

Auction Closed

June 25, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000,000 - 20,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1960 - 1988


Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict

signed, titled and dated 1982 (on the reverse of the left panel)

oil, oil stick, and acrylic on wood and metal

203.2 by 208.3 cm. 80 by 82 in.

Executed in 1982.

Fun Gallery, New York

Galerie Jacques Mostini, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Figuration Libre, 1984 - 1985, p. 80, illustrated in colour (installed in Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fun Gallery, New York, 1982)

Exh. Cat., New York, Lang & O’Hara Gallery; and Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Peintures, sculptures, oeuvres sur papier et dessins, 1989, pp. 14-15, illustrated in colour

Michel Enrici, J.M. Basquiat, Paris 1989, p. 65, illustrated in colour

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, eds., Jean-Michel Basquiat, vol. I, Paris 1996, pp. 80-81, illustrated in colour (1st edition); pp. 104-05, illustrated in colour (2nd edition)

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, eds., Jean-Michel Basquiat, vol. 2, Paris 2000, pp. 108-09, illustrated in colour (3rd edition)

Phoebe Hoban, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, New York 1998, pp. 322, 338 (text)

Leonhard Emmerling, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988, Cologne 2003, p. 89 (text); p. 90, illustrated in colour

Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, New Jersey 2011, no. 14.14, p. 444 (text) and p. 455, illustrated in colour

Jordana Moore Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, London 2014, pp. 35 and 131 (text)

Fred Hoffman, The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York 2017, pp. 208-09, illustrated in colour; pp. 210-15 (text); and p. 211, illustrated in colour (installed in Basquiat, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2005)

New York, Fun Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, November - December 1982

Paris, Musées des Marseille Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Une rétrospective, July - September 1992, p. 81, illustrated in colour

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; and Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 1992 - January 1994, p. 51 (text); p. 52, illustrated; p. 124, illustrated in colour

Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Témoignage 1977-1988, October - November 1998, pp. 48-49, illustrated in colour

New York, Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat, March 2005 - February 2006, p. 67, illustrated in colour

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Basquiat, May - September 2010, no. 61, p. 85, illustrated in colour

Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Basquiat, October 2010 - January 2011, no. 58, p. 83, illustrated in colour

Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 2018 - January 2019, no. 58, p. 167, illustrated in colour