Sold
$1,996,000
Est
$1,000,000
-
$1,500,000
Live Auction
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Size
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Description
Medium
oilstick on paper
Signature
Executed in 1983.
Provenance
Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
Adri, Martin and Geertjan Visser, The Netherlands
Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, March 21, 1988, lot 280 (titled Thor)
Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Galerie Enrico Navarra, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, Paris, 1999, fig. 16, pp. 37-38 (detail illustrated, p. 37)
Jean-Michel Basquiat. French Collections, exh. cat., Cultural Services of the Embassy of France in the United States, New York, 2007, fig. 16, pp. 21, 29 (detail illustrated, p. 21)
Exhibited
Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Drawings and sculptures from the collection Adri, Martin and Geertjen Visser, October 13–November 25, 1984, no. 1, pp. 34-35 (illustrated, p. 35)
Paris, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Basquiat, September 27–November 3, 1990, p. 26 (illustrated)