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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)

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28.06.2023 14:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 990297
Lot 16 | JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)

Untitled (Pablo Picasso)

acrylic and oilstick on metal

35 5/8 x 35 5/8in. (90.5 x 90.5cm.)

Executed in 1984





Provenance

Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York.

Robert Miller Gallery, New York.

Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 9 November 2005, lot 562.

Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale).

Anon. sale, Christie's London, 8 February 2007, lot 22.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

Kyu H. Park, Andy Warhol & Jean Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., Kyongju, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, 1991 (illustrated in colour, p. 15).

Galerie Enrico Navarra (ed.), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris 1996, vol. 1, pp. 286 and 399 (illustrated in colour, p. 287).

Galerie Enrico Navarra (ed.), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris 1996, vol. 1, pp. 238 and 394 (illustrated in colour, p. 239).

Galerie Enrico Navarra (ed.), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris 2000, vol. 1, p. 238 (illustrated in colour, p. 239).

Galerie Enrico Navarra (ed.), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris 2000, vol. 2, p. 213, no. 7 (illustrated in colour, p. 212).

L. Emmerling, Jean Michel Basquiat: 1960 – 1988, Cologne 2003, p. 30 (illustrated in colour, p. 29).

M. Falconer, ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat: downtown stray to international star’, in RA Magazine, Autumn 2017 (illustrated in colour).

W. Januszczak, ‘Art Review: Basquiat at the Barbican’, in The Sunday Times, 24 September 2017 (illustrated in colour).

C. Gilroy-Ware, ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat, Boom For Real’, in The White Review, December 2017 (illustrated in colour).

K. Baker, ‘Does Basquiat’s work still burn with youthful energy or has it become a fossil of 1980s New York?’, in The Art Newspaper, 26 January 2018 (installation view illustrated in colour).



Exhibited

Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Post-Picasso. Contemporary Reactions, 2014, p. 193, no. 33 (illustrated in colour, p. 123; illustrated in colour on the exhibition poster).

Paris, Grand Palais, Picasso.Mania, 2015-2016, pp. 301 and 320, no. 247 (illustrated in colour, p. 287).

London, Barbican Art Gallery, Basquiat: Boom For Real, 2017-2018 (illustrated in colour, p. 201). This exhibition later travelled to Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle.



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Artist:Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)
Art style:Post War Art
Auction house category:Paintings
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