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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Lot 220

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

Ajoco

Closed26 June 2013

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GBP 73,875

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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Ajoco
wax crayon on paper
11 x 8½in. (27.5 x 21.5cm.)
Executed in 1982

Glenn O'Brien Collection, New York.
Anon. sale, Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, 11 October 2003, lot 122.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

'I'm an artist who has been influenced by his New York environment. But I have a cultural memory. I dont need to look for it; it exists, it's over there, in Africa. That doesn't mean that I have to go live there. Our cultural memory follows us everywhere, wherever you live' (J.-M. Basquiat interview with D. Davvetas, New Art International, no. 3, October-November 1988).