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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 2B | $****** - ****** | Fats II |
paintings
285.1 x 163.2 cm (112.25 x 64.25 in)
acrylic and oilstick on canvas
signed, titled and dated '87 Jean-Michel Basquiat "FATS II"' (on the reverse)
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Private collection, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Düsseldorf, Galerie Hans Mayer, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Neue Arbeiten, January-March 1988, n.p. (illustrated).
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, April-June 1998.
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October-November 1999, p. 269 (illustrated in color and on the exhibition announcement).
Dublin, The Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery, Now’s the Time, November 2008- February 2009, pp. 28-29 and 62 (illustrated in color).
J.-L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 150-151, no. 8 (illustrated in color).
P. Hoban, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, 1998, New York, n.p. (studio view illustrated).
Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., Trieste, Museo Revoltella, 1999, p. 190 (studio view illustrated in color).
J.-L. Prat, et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 23 and 260-261, no. 3 (illustrated in color and studio view illustrated in color).
L. Emmerling, Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1960-1988, Cologne, 2003, p. 95 (studio view illustrated in color).
The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show, exh. cat., Milan, Fondazione La Triennale de Milano, 2006, p. 18 (studio view illustrated in color).
Basquiat, exh. cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2010, p. 174 (studio view illustrated in color).
Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing: Works from the Schorr Family Collection, exh. cat., New York, Acquavella Galleries, 2014, p. 192 (studio view illustrated in color).
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, exh. cat., New York, Brooklyn Museum, 2015, p. 203, pl. 201 (illustrated in color).
Words Are All We Have: Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., New York, Nahmad Contemporary, 2016, pp. 4 and 99, fig. 4 (illustrated in color and studio view illustrated in color).
signed, titled and dated '87 Jean-Michel Basquiat "FATS II"' (on the reverse)
acrylic and oilstick on canvas
112 1/4 x 64 1/4 in. (285 x 163.3 cm.)
Painted in 1987.
