JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
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ID 1426152
Lot 23 | JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 000 – 30 000 000
Baby Boom
signed, titled and dated ‘‘Baby Boom’ Jean-Michel Basquiat Aug. 1982’’ (on the reverse)
acrylic, oilstick and paper collage on canvas mounted on tied wood supports
49 x 84 in. (125 x 213.5 cm.)
Executed in 1982.
Provenance
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, 15 May 2001, lot 31
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
R. D. Marshall and J.-L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 126-127 (illustrated).
T. Shafrazi, J. Deitch and R. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999, p, 114 (illustrated).
E. Navarra et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris and New York, 2000, vol. 1, pp. 100-101 (illustrated).
E. Navarra et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris and New York, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 116-117 and 289, no. 4 (illustrated).
D. Ebony, “Contemporary Art Ignites Bidding Wars at Spring Auctions,” Art in America, July 2001, p. 23.
Basquiat: Boom for Real, exh. cat., London, Barbican Art Gallery, 2017, p. 273 (installation view illustrated).
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood, exh. cat., New York, Nahmad Contemporary, 2022, p. 15 (installation view illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Fun Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, November-December 1982.
Tokyo, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, November-December 1983, n.p., no. 5.
Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Peintures, April-June 1996.
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and Taichung Museum, Jean-Michel Basquiat, January-April 1997, pp. 42-43.
Seoul, Gallery Hyundai, Jean-Michel Basquiat, July-August 1997, pp. 38-39.
Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum and Marugame, M.I.M.O.C.A, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 1997-May 1998, pp. 38-39 (illustrated).
Sao Paulo, Pinacoteca, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Pinturas, June-August 1998, pp. 44-45 and 109 (illustrated).
Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Basquiat a Venezia, June-October 1999, pp. 70-71, 115 and 133 (illustrated).
Naples, Museo Civico Castel Nuovo, Basquiat a Napoli, December 1999-March 2000, pp. 48-49 (illustrated).
Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, Le Nu au XXeme Siecle, July 1999-October 2000, pp. 247-249 (illustrated).
Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat, March 2005-February 2006, p. 79 (illustrated).
New York, PaceWildenstein, Dubuffet and Basquiat: Personal Histories, April-June 2006, p. 53 (illustrated).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler and Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Basquiat, May 2010-January 2011, pp. 80-83, no. 59 (Basel; illustrated); pp. 81, no. 56 (Paris; illustrated on the cover).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, January-April 2013, pp. 74 and 78-79 (illustrated).
Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October-January 2019, pp. 24, 28 and 165-166, no. 56 (illustrated).
New York, The Brant Foundation, Jean-Michel Basquiat, March-May 2019, pp. 11, 24, 31, 102-103, 122-123 and 126-127 (illustrated).
New York, The Brant Foundation, Third Dimension: Works from the Brant Foundation, November 2019-September 2020.
Artist: | Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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