Live Auction 15348Post-War and Contemporary Art
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Lot 51

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

Untitled

Closed1 March 2018

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USD 250,000

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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Untitled
marker on paper
16 x 13 ¼ in. (40.6 x 33.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1981. This work is registered with the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat under number 60008.

Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Anon. sale; Perrin-Royere-Lajeunesse, Versailles, 26 April 1998, lot 136
Private collection
Anon. sale; Artcurial, Paris, 3 April 2007, lot 383
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 September 2009, lot 170
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

”In many ways, Basquiat felt most at ease when working on paper…In contrast to the production of a painting on canvas or a mixed media assemblage, both of which a priori required Basquiat to have studio space, he could work on paper virtually anywhere, at any time. And in many ways this is precisely what occurred.”-Fred Hoffman
(F. Hoffman, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Drawing, exh. cat., Acquavella, New York, 2014, p. 34).