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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 12, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 105 | $****** - ****** | Versus Medici |
paintings
214 x 137.8 cm (84.25 x 54.25 in)
acrylic, oilstick and paper collage on three joined canvases
Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York Stéphane Janssen (acquired from the above in October 1982)Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1990
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Histoire d’une oeuvre (The Work of a Lifetime), June - October 2003, pp. 48-49, illustrated in color Museo d’Arte Moderna della Città di Lugano, Jean-Michel Basquiat, March - June 2005, p. 25, no. 6, illustrated in color, and p. 155, illustratedMilan, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show, September 2006 - January 2007, p. 243, no. 111, illustrated in colorBonn, Art and Exhibition Hall, Ménage à trois: Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente, February - May 2012, p. 187, no. 6, illustrated in color, and p. 249 (text)Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, Intuition, May - November 2017, p. 369, illustrated Tokyo, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made in Japan, September - November 2019, p. 59, illustrated in color
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2nd Ed., Vol. 2, Paris 1996, pp. 92-93, illustrated in colorRichard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., Vol. I, Paris 2000, p. 149, illustrated in colorExh. Cat., Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, New York New York: Fifty Years of Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, 2006, p. 452, illustrated in color, and p. 536 (text)Jordana Moore Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, Berkeley 2014, p. 35 (text)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960 - 1988
Versus Medici
signed, titled and dated OCT. 1982 on the reverse
acrylic, oilstick and paper collage on three joined canvases
84 ¼ by 54 ¼ in. 214 by 137.8 cm.
