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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

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Fermé13 November 2013

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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Untitled
signed and dated '1892 Jean Michel Basquiat' (on the reverse)
oilstick on paper
22 x 30 in. (55.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Drawn in 1982. This work is accompanied by a certificate issued by the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
Private collection, Geneva
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, Paris, 10 December 2008, lot 12
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Note du spécialiste

"Although Basquiat's drawings are in no sense specifically preparatory to the paintings, they do constitute the laboratory in which spontaneity and invention have freest range. What is true of the drawings applies to the poems-or poetic fragments-that one finds in his early (1980) notebooks. Little stories are told in telegraphed mode-only to be essentialized still further a few pages on. Jean's working method seems always to move from the full to the indicated, from the complex to its essence" (H. Geldzahler, Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Notebooks, New York, 1993).