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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 31, 2024 | Phillips | Hong Kong | Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 10 | $****** - ****** | Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari |
paintings
183.2 x 182.2 cm (72.13 x 71.73 in)
acrylic and oil stick on canvas on wood supports
signed, titled, dedicated and dated "NATIVE CARRYING GUNS + BIBLES AMORITES ON SAFARI" Jean-Michel Basquiat 1982 to Glenn O"Brien" on the reverse
Glenn O" Brien, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Francesco Pellizzi, New York (acquired from the above in 1983)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Hempstead, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University; Bethlehem, Lehigh University Art Galleries, 1979-1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, 16 April-2 November, 1989, no. 3, p. 58 (illustrated on the front cover)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Des Moines Art Center; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 23 October, 1992-9 January, 1994, pp. 138, 264 (illustrated, p. 138)
Houston, The Menil Collection, 17 Contemporaries: Artists from America, Italy, and Mexico - the Eighties , 11 June-15 August, 1999
Los Angeles, Brooklyn Museum; The Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat, 11 March, 2005-12 February, 2006, pp. 68, 224 (illustrated, p. 68)
Houston, The Menil Collection, NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith , 27 June-21 September, 2008, pl. 95, p. 14 (illustrated, n.p.)
Liverpool, Tate Museum, Afro-Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic , 29 January-25 April, 2010, pp. 18, 138-139, 214 (illustrated, p. 139)
New York, The Brant Foundation, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 6 March-14 May, 2019
Helen A. Harrison, "Anthropologist Collects With a Passion", The New York Times , 30 April, 1989, p. 23
Bell Hooks, "Altars of Sacrifice, Re-membering Basquiat", Art in America , vol. 81, no. 6, June 1993, pp. 71-72 (illustrated, p. 72)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , Paris, 1996, fig. 37, pp. 40-41, 48-49 (illustrated, p. 40)
Jean-Michel Basquiat , exh. cat., Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 1996, fig. 37, p. 116 (illustrated)
Tony Shafrazi, Jeffrey Deitch and Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999, pp. 164, 315 (illustrated, p. 164)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , vol. II, Paris, 2000, fig. 35, no. 5, pp. 44-45, 140-141 (illustrated, pp. 45, 140)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Books Higginbotham, African American Lives , New York, 2004, p. 54 (illustrated)
Timothy Bewes, The Event of Postcolonial Shame , Princeton and Oxford, 2011, n.p. (illustrated on the front cover)
Doris Berger, Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art , New York and London, 2014, p. 270, note 29
Jordana Moore Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art , Berkley and Los Angeles, 2014, pl. 13, pp. 34-35, 122, 207 (illustrated, n.p.)
Ruth E. Iskin, ed., Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon. Perspectives in a Global World , New York and London, 2017, p. 66
Jean-Michel Basquiat , exh. cat., Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2018, no. 5, pp. 302-303 (illustrated, p. 303)
Hans Werner Holzwarth, Benedikt Taschen and Eleanor Nairne, eds., Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling , Cologne, 2018, pp. 170, 494 (illustrated, p. 170)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari,
signed, titled, dedicated and dated "NATIVE CARRYING GUNS + BIBLES AMORITES ON SAFARI" Jean-Michel Basquiat 1982 to Glenn O"Brien" on the reverse
acrylic and oil stick on canvas on wood supports
183.2 x 182.2 cm. (72 1/8 x 71 3/4 in.)
Executed in 1982.
