Passed
Est
$10,000,000
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$15,000,000
Live Auction
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Size
36 x 71 5/8 in. (91.4 x 181.9 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM AN EXCEPTIONAL PRIVATE COLLECTION
Medium
acrylic, oil, oilstick and paper collage on wood, triptych
Signature
Executed in 1983.
Provenance
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Larry Warsh, New York (acquired from the above in the late 1980s)
Christie’s, New York, November 16, 2000, lot 37 (dated 1981)
Johnny Depp, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale)
Christie's, London, June 29, 2016, lot 7 (dated 1981)
Mugrabi Collection, New York
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Larry Warsh, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Notebooks, New York, 1993, p. 166 (detail illustrated in the front and back cover; dated 1981)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 1996, vol. II, no. 4, pp. 56-57 (illustrated, p. 56; dated 1981)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2000, vol. II, no. 5, pp. 164-165 (illustrated, p. 164)
Joe Lloyd, “Basquiat: Boom for Real,” studio international, September 26, 2017, online (detail illustrated; dated 1981)
Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2020, fig. 51, pp. 76-77, 191 (illustrated, pp. 76-77; dated 1981)
Exhibited
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works in BLACK AND WHITE, November 15, 1994–January 10, 1995
Milan, Mudec – Museo delle Culture, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Opere della Mugrabi Collection, October 28, 2016–February 26, 2017, pp. 50-51 (illustrated; dated 1981)
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Basquiat: Boom for Real, September 21, 2017–January 28, 2018, pp. 168, 291 (illustrated, p. 168; dated 1981)