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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 21, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction | 33 | $****** - ****** | Red Kings |
paintings
81.3 x 94 cm (32.01 x 37.01 in)
acrylic on wood and glass
signed, dated 1981 and inscribed NYC (on the reverse)
Stephen and Lilly Lack, New York (acquired from the artist directly in 1981)
Private Collection, New York (by 1999)
Acquired from the above in May 2008 by the present owner
Coral Gables, Florida, Quintana Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1980-1988, December 1996 - February 1997, illustrated in color (on the cover) (detail), illustrated in color (on the exhibition invitation) and pp. 8-9, illustrated in color and p. 56 (text)
Vienna, KunstHausWien, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Mugrabi Collection , February - May 1999, illustrated in color (on the exhibition invitation) and p. 52, illustrated in color
Künzelsau, Germany, Museum Würth, The Mugrabi Collection: Jean-Michel Basquiat , September 2001 - January 2002, illustrated in color (on the cover) and p. 53, illustrated in color
Milan, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show , September 2006 - January 2007, no. 68, p. 193 (text) and p. 195, illustrated in color
Basel, Fondation Beyeler and Musée d"art moderne de la ville de Paris, Basquiat , May 2010 - January 2011, no. 22, p. 31, illustrated in color (Basel); no. 20, p. 35, illustrated in color (Paris)
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Jean-Michel Basquiat , 1992-1994, p. 235, illustrated
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 2nd Ed., Vol. I, Paris, 1996, pp. 38-39, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, Malca Fine Art, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf: In Your Face , 1997, p. 36, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1999, p. 31, illustrated in color
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat , Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., Vol. I, Paris, 2000, pp. 22-23, illustrated in color
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 3rd Ed., Vol II, Paris, 2000, no. 3, pp. 92-93, illustrated in color
Tamra Davis, dir., Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, 2010, 01:40, illustrated in color (film)
Frances Negrón-Mutaner, Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism Across Indigenous Nations and Latinx America , Arizona, 2017, p. 343 (text)
Exh. Cat., New York, Nahmad Contemporary, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood , 2022, fig. 6, p. 46, illustrated in color
Property from a Distinguished Private Collector
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960 - 1988
Red Kings
signed, dated 1981 and inscribed NYC (on the reverse)
acrylic on wood and glass
32 by 37 in.
81.3 by 94 cm.
Executed in 1981.
