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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 17, 2023 | Christie's | New York | A Century of Art: The Gerald Fineberg Collection Part I | 44C | $****** - ****** | Brain |
sculpture
121.9 x 110.5 x 43.2 cm (48 x 43.5 x 17 in)
acrylic, oilstick, Xerox paper collage and gesso on twenty-seven wood blocks with bootblack stand
signed and dated' Jean-Michel Basquiat 85' (on the underside of the bootblack stand)
Diego Cortez Arte Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, Menil Collection; Des Moines Art Center; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 1992-January 1994, p. 207 and 266 (illustrated).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Miami, Pérez Art Museum, Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation , October 2020-July 2021, pp. 164-165 and 195, no. 117 (illustrated).
E. Navarra, J.L. Prat, et al, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 142-143, no. 10 (illustrated).
E. Navarra, J.L. Prat, et al, Jean-Michel Basquiat , Paris, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 238-239, no. 10 (illustrated).
D. Murray and G. Lock, eds., The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art, Oxford, 2009, p. 279.
E. Fretz, Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography , New York, 2010, pp. 140, 142, 180 and 191.
J. M. Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art , Berkeley, 2014, pp. 77 and 212.
J. M. Saggese, ed., The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses, Berkeley, 2021, p. 235.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
Brain
signed and dated' Jean-Michel Basquiat 85' (on the underside of the bootblack stand)
acrylic, oilstick, Xerox paper collage and gesso on twenty-seven wood blocks with bootblack stand
overall: 48 x 43 1/2 x 17 in. (122 x 110.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed in 1985.
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