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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2022 | Christie's | Shanghai | 20th/21st Century: Shanghai Evening Sale | 8 | $****** - ****** | Il Duce | |||
Nov 16, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 10B | $****** - ****** | Il Duce |
paintings
152.4 x 152.4 cm (60 x 60 in)
acrylic, oilstick on canvas
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat NYC 82 “IL DUCE”' (on the reverse)
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich (acquired directly from the artist)
Private collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, New York Now , November 1982-January 1983.
Pully, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Jean-Michel Basquiat , July-November 1993.
Trieste, Museo Revoltella Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Jean-Michel Basquiat , May-September 1999.
Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Jean-Michel Basquiat , March-June 2005.
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, The 80s Revisited. From the Bischofberger Collection, Part II , March-June 2011.
Ishøj, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Warhol & Basquiat , September 2011-January 2012.
Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle, Ménage à trois. Warhol, Basquiat , Clemente, February-May 2012.
Zurich, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Basquiat: Paintings and Drawings , June-September 2013.
New York Now , exh. cat., Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1982 (illustrated, no. 10, p. 41).
Jean-Michel Basquiat , exh. cat., Pully/Lausanne, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, 1993 (illustrated, p. 40 and 126).
R. D. Marshall and J.-L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1996, 1st edition, vol. 1, p. 94-95 and 389 (illustrated in color); 2nd edition, vol. 1, p. 118-119 and 392 (illustrated in color).
Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., Trieste, Museo Revoltella Galleria d'Arte Moderna, 1999 (illustrated, p. 44-45).
Jean-Michel Basquiat , Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 2000, vol. 2 (illustrated, no. 4, p. 112-113 and appendix 30).
G. Bria, “Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Modo, June-July 2005 (illustrated, p. 90).
Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 2005 (illustrated, no. 10, p. 32)
The 80s Revisited. From the Bischofberger Collection, Part II , exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2011 (illustrated, p. 107).
Warhol & Basquiat exh. cat., Ishøj, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, 2011 (illustrated, no. 2, p. 75 and 102).
Ménage à trois. Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente , exh. cat., Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2012 (illustrated, no. 4, p. 186 and 249).
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
Il Duce
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat NYC 82 “IL DUCE”' (on the reverse)
acrylic, oilstick on canvas
152.4 x 152.4 cm. (60 x 60 in.)
Painted in 1982
