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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2022 | Phillips | New York | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 12 | Estimates not disclosed | Very Good | Untitled | ||
May 10, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Evening Sale | 36b | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Untitled | ||
Jun 23, 2004 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art - Evening Sale | 32 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Untitled |
paintings
239.4 x 501 cm (94.25 x 197.25 in)
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
signed, inscribed and dated "JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT MODENA 1982." on the reverse
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya (acquired from the above in 1985)
Tsurukame Corporation, Japan
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya
Enrico Navarra Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, London, June 23, 2004, lot 32
Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Christie's, New York, May 10, 2016, lot 36B
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Tokyo, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings , December 2-25, 1985, no. 4, n.p. (illustrated)
Chiba, Makuhari Messe, Pharmakon '90 , July 28-August 20, 1990, p. 438 (illustrated, pp. 74-75)
Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Peintures , April 2-June 12, 1996
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts; Taichung, Taiwan Museum of Art, Jean-Michel Basquiat , January 26-June 15, 1997, pp. 36-37 (illustrated)
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Jean-Michel Basquiat , June 16-August 23, 1998, pp. 50, 116 (illustrated, pp. 51-53; Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1996, installation view illustrated, p. 111)
Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Basquiat a Venezia , June 9-October 3, 1999, p. 149 (illustrated, pp. 62-63, 114; Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1996, installation view illustrated, p. 134)
Naples, Il Museo Civico di Castel Nuovo, Basquiat a Napoli , December 19, 1999-March 4, 2000, pp. 60-61 (illustrated)
Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Dipinti , January 20-March 17, 2002, pp. 70-71 (illustrated)
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat. The Work of a Lifetime , June 27-October 23, 2003, pp. 44-45 (illustrated; Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1996, installation view illustrated, p. 161)
Basel, Fondation Beyeler (no. 47, pp. 66-67, illustrated); Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (no. 45, pp. 70-71, illustrated), Basquiat , May 9, 2010-January 30, 2011
Nobuyuki Hiromoto, "Rhythmical and Perfect Balance," Monthly Art Magazine Bijutsu Techo , vol. 38, no. 564, July 1986, pp. 81-80 (illustrated)
Jean-Louis Prat and Richard Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat , Paris, 1996, vol. 1, p. 389 (illustrated, pp. 76-77 and on the front and back covers); vol. 2, p. 249 (Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1996, installation view illustrated)
Tony Shafrazi, Jeffrey Deitch and Richard Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat , New York, 1999, pp. 110-111 (illustrated)
Galerie Enrico Navarra, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat , Paris, 2000, vol. 1, pp. 72-73 (illustrated); vol. 2, no. 2, p. 99 (illustrated, p. 98); vol. 3, pp. 72-23 (illustrated); appendix, p. 46 (Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 2010, installation view illustrated)
Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary Art , Cologne, 2010, p. 129 (illustrated)
Koji Ozawa, "Yusaku Maezawa, who lives and shares his art," GQ Japan , August 16, 2016, online (installation view illustrated)
Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling , Cologne, 2018, p. 494 (illustrated, pp. 200-201)
signed, inscribed and dated "JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT MODENA 1982." on the reverse
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
94 1/4 x 197 1/4 in. (239.4 x 501 cm)
Executed in 1982.
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