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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction | 133 | $****** - ****** | Gravestone |
paintings
144.8 x 175 x 56 cm (57.01 x 68.9 x 22.05 in)
acrylic and oilstick on three hinged wood panels
signed and titled (on the reverse)
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya (by 1992)
Twiga, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired by 1996)
Acquired from the above in October 2002 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Jean-Michel Basquiat , January - February 1988
Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat , March 2005 - February 2006, p. 155, illustrated in color
Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, Jean-Michel Basquiat: New York City, Opere dalla Mugrabi Collection , March - July 2017, pp. 96-97, illustrated in color and p. 141 (text)
New York, Nahmad Contemporary, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood , April - June 2022, pl. 46, p. 23 (text) and pp. 272-73, 276-77, illustrated in color
Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Basquiat x Warhol: Painting Four Hands , April - August 2023, pp. 11, 27, 354 (text) and pp. 332-33, illustrated in color
New York, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Basquiat x Warhol, November 2023 - January 2024
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Jean-Michel Basquiat , 1992-94, p. 248, illustrated
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 1st Ed., Vol. I, Paris 1996, p. 335, illustrated in color
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 2nd Ed., Vol. II, Paris 1996, p. 187, illustrated in color and p. 217 (text)
Exh., Cat., Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 1999, p. 27, illustrated in color (in installation with the artist in his studio, New York, 1987)
Exh. Cat., Naples, Museo Civico Castel Nuovo, Jean-Michel Basquiat a Napoli , 1999-2000, p. 20, illustrated in color (in installation with the artist in his studio, New York, 1987)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 3rd Ed., Vol. II, Paris 2000, no. 7, pp. 52, 256, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Work of a Lifetime , 2003, p. 29, illustrated in color
Milan, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show , 2006-07, p. 29, illustrated in color (in installation with the artist in his studio, New York, 1987)
Eric Fretz, Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography , Santa Barbara 2010, p. 157 (text)
Exh. Cat., Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bunderepublik Deutschland, Ménage a trois: Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente , 2012, p. 131 (text) and p. 132, illustrated in color
Property from the Collection of Enrico Navarra
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960 - 1988
Gravestone
signed and titled (on the reverse)
acrylic and oilstick on three hinged wood panels
57 by 69 by 22 in.
144.8 by 175 by 56 cm.
Executed in 1987.
