JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT | Untitled

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
Christie's, London, 4 October 1989, Lot 164
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Vienna, Kunsthaus Wien Museum Hundertwasser, Jean-Michel Basquiat, February - May 1999, illustrated
Künzelsau, Kunsthalle Würth, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 2001 - January 2002
Santander, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Ahuyentando fantasmas, July - September 2008, pp. 84-85, illustrated in color
Rome, Fondazione Memmo, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Fantasmi da Scacciare, October 2008 - February 2009, no. 14, pp. 70-71, illustrated in color
Milan, Museo delle Culture, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 2016 - February 2017, pp. 134-135, illustrated in color
Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, Jean-Michel Basquiat: New York City, March - July 2017, p. 104, illustrated in color
Sao Paulo, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; Brasilia, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Jean-Michel Basuqiat Obras da Colecção Mugrabi, January 2018 - January 2019, p. 68, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat intermittently along the deckled edges. There are faint creases scattered throughout, likely inherent to the work. Light smudges and errant pigments are visible throughout, inherent to the work. Framed under Plexiglas.
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“He ate up every image, every word, every bit of data that appeared in front of him, and he processed it all into a bebop Cubist Pop Art cartoon gospel that synthesized the whole overload we lived under into something that made astonishing new sense.” Glenn O’Brien, “Greatest Hits” in Exh. Cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time, 2015, p. 177



This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.