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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 27, 2019 | Phillips | London | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 21 | $****** - ****** | Pink Elephant with Fire Engine |
paintings
218.4 x 172.7 cm (85.98 x 67.99 in)
acrylic, oil and silkscreen on canvas
Mary Boone Gallery, New York and Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
Tony Shafrazi, New York
Private Collection, London
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Mary Boone Gallery and Michael Werner, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 5 - 26 May 1984
Tokyo, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings, 2 - 25 December 1985, no. 7, n.p. (illustrated)
Miami, Quintana Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1980-1988, 17 December 1996 - 21 February 1997, pp. 34, 66 (illustrated, p. 35)
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 25 April - 6 June 1998, pp. 232 and 330 (illustrated, p. 232; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, 1984 installation view illustrated, p. 330)
Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Basquiat a Venezia, 9 June - 3 October 1999, pp. 94, 149 (illustrated, p. 95)
Naples, Castel Nuovo, Jean-Michel Basquiat a Napoli, 19 December 1999 - 4 March 2000, p. 94-5 (illustrated, p. 95)
Cuneo, Galeria d'Arte Il Prisma, Basquiat a Cuneo, 2001, p. 43
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Histoire d'une oeuvre, 27 June - 23 October 2003, p. 90 (illustrated, p. 91; Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, 1985 installation view illustrated, p. 159)
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2004 (illustrated, p. 64; Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, 1985 installation view illustrated, p. 93)
Bali, Darga Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2004, p. 31
Museo d'Arte Moderna della Città di Lugano, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 20 March - 19 June 2005, no. 41, p. 84 (illustrated, p. 85)
Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show, 19 September 2006 - 28 January 2007, no. 131, p. 266 (illustrated)
Sao Paolo, CCBB; Brasilia, CCBB; Belo Horizonte, CCBB; Rio de Janeiro, CCBB, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works from the Mugrabi Collection, 25 January 2018 - 7 January 2019, p. 122 (illustrated)
Jean-Louis Prat and Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 1996, pp. 240, 397-398 (illustrated, p. 241)
Jean-Louis Prat and Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 1996, no. 6, p. 127 (illustrated, p. 126)
Tony Shafrazi et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999 (illustrated, p. 232; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, 1984 installation view illustrated, p. 330)
Jean-Louis Prat and Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2000, no. 6, p. 201 (illustrated, p. 200; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, 1984 installation view illustrated, p. 282; Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, 1985 installation view illustrated, p. 288)
Jean-Louis Prat and Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2000, p. 230 (illustrated, p. 231)
Jean-Louis Prat and Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Appendix, Paris, 2000, p. 36
Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling, Cologne, 2018, p. 496 (illustrated, p. 312)
acrylic, oil and silkscreen on canvas
218.4 x 172.7 cm (86 x 68 in.)
Executed in 1984.
