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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 10, 2022 | Christie's | New York | 21st Century Evening Sale | 15B | $****** - ****** | See Plate 3 | |||
May 7, 1991 | Christie's | East | Modern & Contemporary Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 295 | Estimates not disclosed | Head of fryer |
paintings
61.6 x 43.8 x 45.7 cm (24.25 x 17.25 x 18 in)
acrylic on canvas
signed, titled and dated "BASQUIAT 1982 "SEE PLATE 3." (on the interior of the lower element)
Keith Haring, New York, acquired directly from the artist
His sale; Christie's, New York, 7 May 1991, lot 295
José Mugrabi, New York
Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999
New York, FUN Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat , November-December 1982.
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. 49, 120 and 264 (illustrated and installation view illustrated; titled as Head of a Fryer ).
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works in Black and White, November 1994-January 1995.
Coral Gables, Quintana Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, December 1996-February 1997, p. 63 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jean-Michel Basquiat - Té moignage 1977-1988, October-November 1998, pp. 50-51 (illustrated and installation view illustrated; titled as Head of a Fryer ).
New York, Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat, March 2005-February 2006, p. 70 (illustrated).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Basquiat, May 2010-January 2011, pp. 80-81 and 83, pl. 60 (Basel, illustrated); p. 82, pl. 57 (Paris, illustrated).
Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 2018-January 2019, pp. 28 and 166, pl. 15 and 57 (illustrated and installation view illustrated).
New York, The Brant Foundation, Jean-Michel Basquiat, March-May 2019.
J. Gruen, Keith Haring : the Authorized Biography, New York, 1991, p. 217 (installation image illustrated).
R. Marshall and J.-L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1996, 1st edition, vol. 1, p. 128 (installation image illustrated); 2nd edition, vol. 1, pp. 202 and 244 (installation views illustrated).
Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 1996, p. 129 (installation view illustrated).
Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., Seoul, Gallery Hyundai, 1997, p. 111 (installation view illustrated).
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Obras sobre Papel , exh. cat., Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Moderna, Buenos Aires, 1997, p. 119 (installation view illustrated).
Jean-Michel Basquiat , exh. cat., Mitsukochi Museum, Tokyo, 1997, p. 111 (installation view illustrated).
T. Shafrazi, J. Deitch, and R. D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999, p. 327 (installation view illustrated).
Basquiat en la Habana, exh. cat., Fundación Havana Club, 2000, p. 191 (installation view illustrated).
J.-L. Prat, et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat , Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 2000, 3rd edition, vol. 2, p. 110-111 and 277, no. 7 (illustrated and installation view illustrated); appendix, p. 29 (titled as Head of a Fryer).
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Gemä lde und Arbeiten auf Papier, exh. cat., Künzelsau, Museum Würth, 2001, p. 158 (installation view illustrated).
L. Emmerling, Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1960-1988, New York, 2003, p. 57.
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Histoire d'une oeuvre , exh. cat., Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, 2003, p. 149 (installation view illustrated).
E. Fretz, Jean-Michel Basquiat : A Biography, Santa Barbara, 2010, p. 107.
"Jean-Michel Basquiat," Hors-sé rie Connaissance des Arts , no. 468, 2010, p. 56 (illustrated).
Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2014, p. 74 (installation view illustrated).
Basquiat: Boom for Real , exh. cat., London, Barbican Art Gallery, 2017, p. 273 (installation view illustrated).
F. Hoffman, The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 2017, pp. 208, 211 and 215 (illustrated and installation view illustrated).
H. Holzwarth, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling, Cologne, 2018, p. 488 (installation view illustrated).
Keith Haring / Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, 2019, p. 74 (installation view illustrated).
H. Holzwarth, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cologne, 2021, pp. 60-61 (installation view illustrated).
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
See Plate 3
signed, titled and dated "BASQUIAT 1982 "SEE PLATE 3." (on the interior of the lower element)
acrylic, oil and oilstick on canvas and wood construction, in two parts
overall: 24 1⁄4 x 17 1⁄4 x 18 in. (61.5 x 44 x 45.8 cm.)
Executed in 1982.
