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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 19, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | The Now & Contemporary Evening Auction | 120 | $****** - ****** | Crowns (Peso Neto) |
paintings
193.7 x 239.4 cm (76.25 x 94.25 in)
acrylic, oilstick and paper collage on canvas
signed, titled and dated DEC 25 81 (lower edge)
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in April 1982)
Jeffrey Deitch, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Worrell Jr., Virginia (acquired from the above by 1992)
Jeffrey Deitch, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in December 2005)
Acquired from the above in October 2016 by the present owner
New York, Annina Nosei Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat , March - April 1982
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta 7, June - September 1982, p. 432, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Des Moines Art Center; and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel Basquiat , October 1992 - January 1994, pp. 16, 21, 23, 264, (text) and p. 93, illustrated in color
Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat , March 2005 - February 2006, illustrated in color (inside front cover) (detail), p. 34, illustrated in color and p. 168 (text) (titled Peso Neto )
New York, Deitch Projects, Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street , May 2006, pp. 13, 86, 242 (text) and pp. 236-37, illustrated in color
Basel, Fondation Beyeler and Musée d"art moderne de la ville de Paris, Basquiat , May 2010 - January 2011, no. 29, p. 41, illustrated in color and pp. XIII, XLVIII (text) (Basel); no. 27, p. 45, illustrated in color and pp. XVII and LX (Paris)
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat , February - April 2013, pp. 36-37, 200, illustrated in color, p. 39, illustrated in color (detail) (titled Crowns (Peso Netto) )
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Wanted: Selected Works from the Mugrabi Collection , August - December 2013, p. 69, illustrated in color
Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Jean-Michel Basquiat , October 2018 - January 2019, no. 25, pp. 13, 35 (text) and pp. 98-99, illustrated in color
Jeanne Silverthorne, "Jean Michel Basquiat," Artforum , Vol. 20, No. 10, Summer 1982, p. 82 (text) (titled Peso Neto )
Steven Kaplan, "A Post Mortem On The Occasion Of His Retrospective," Revue d"art contemporai ETC , 1993, p. 57 (text) (titled Peso Neto )
Bell Hooks, “Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat,” Art in America , Vol. 81, No. 6, June 1993, p. 73, illustrated in color
Bell Hooks, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations , New York 1994, p. 34 (text)
Bell Hooks, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics , New York 1995, p. 59 (text)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 2nd Ed., Vol. II, Paris 1996, no. 7, pp. 64-65, illustrated in color
Andrea Frohne, "Representing Jean-Michel Basquiat" in: Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies and Ali A. Mazrui, eds., The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities , Bloomington 1999, p. 442 (text)
Tony Shafrazi, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York 1999, pp. 32, 326 (text)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 3rd Ed., Vol. II, Paris 2000, pp. 88-89, illustrated in color
Kymberly N. Pinder, ed., Race-ing Art History , New York 2002, p. 345 (text)
Leonhard Emmerling, Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988 , Cologne 2003, p. 56 (text)
Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture , New York 2004, p. 140 (text) (titled Crowns )
Margaret Porter Troupe, “Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire , Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2005, p. 57 (text) (titled Peso Neto )
Louis Armand, Solicitations: Essays on Criticism and Culture , Prague 2008, pp. 365, 367 (text)
David Murray and Graham Lock, eds., The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art , Oxford 2009, p. 258 (text) (titled Peso Neto )
Eric Fretz, Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography , Santa Barbara 2010, pp. 89, 91 (titled Peso Neto )
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat: Appendix , Paris 2010, p. 28 (text)
Carolyn Kastner, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: An American Modernist , Albuquerque 2013, no. 25, pp. 47, 71
Exh. Cat., New Orleans, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Basquiat and the Bayou , 2014-15, p. 98 (text)
Exh. Cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now"s the Time , 2015, p. 217 (text)
Ruth Iskin, ed., Re-envisioning The Contemporary Art Canon , London 2017, p. 66 (text) (titled Peso Neto )
Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism Across Indigenous Nations and Latinx America , Tucson 2017, p. 351 (text)
Exh. Cat., London, Barbican Art Gallery (and traveling), Basquiat: Boom for Real , 2017-18, p. 272 (text)
Larry Warsh, ed., Basquiat-isms , Princeton 2019, p. 107 (text)
Jordana Moore Saggese, The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses , Oakland 2021, pl. 4, n.p., illustrated in color and pp. 257, 269, 337, 370 (text) (titled Peso Neto )
Amy Verner, "Jean-Michel Basquiat meets Egon Schiele in Parallel Paris Retrospectives," Wallpaper Magazine , 7 October 2022, illustrated in color (online)
Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Basquiat: The Modena Paintings , 2023, p. 100 (text)
Okwui Enwezor, Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition , Durham 2025, p. 406 (text)
Basquiat Crowned | Property from a Distinguished European Collection
Jean-Michel Basquiat
(1960 - 1988)
Crowns (Peso Neto)
signed, titled and dated DEC 25 81 (lower edge)
acrylic, oilstick and paper collage on canvas
76 ¼ by 94 ¼ in.
193.6 by 239.4 cm.
Executed in 1981.
