ID 842780
Lot 116 | JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
Estimate value
$ 8 000 000 – 10 000 000
Farina
signed, titled and dated '1984 "FARINA" Jean-Michel Basquiat' (on the reverse)
acrylic and oilstick on canvas
86 x 68 in. (218.4 x 172.7 cm.)
Painted in 1984.
Provenance
Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993
Literature
Casa Vogue (Italia), April 1995, pp. 104, 106 (illustrated).
New York Magazine, October 1995, pp. 40-41 (illustrated).
A. Taschen and B. Wedekind, New York Interiors, Cologne, 1997, pp. 90-91 (illustrated).
New York Living, January 1998, p. 23 (installation view illustrated).
E. Navarra et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vol. II, Paris, 2000, pp. 202-203, no. 5 (illustrated).
J.M. Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2014, p. 23.
R. Isken, Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon, London and New York, 2017, p. 61.
Exhibited
Barcelona, Dau al Set Galeria d'Art, Jean-Michel Basquiat, December 1989, n.p., no. 10 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made in Japan, September-November 2019, p. 191 (illustrated).
Melbourne, The National Gallery of Victoria, Keith Haring & Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, November 2019-March 2020, p. 131 (illustrated).
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| Artist: | Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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