19. Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960-1988
Untitled signed, inscribed and dated ‘NYC 81 Jean-Michel Basquiat’ on the reverse acrylic, oilstick and xerox on wood 122 x 76.2 cm (48 x 30 in.) Executed in 1981. Estimate £3,000,000-5,000,000 $3,810,000-6,340,000 €3,390,000-5,650,000 ‡ plus Buyers Premium and VAT*
Provenance Stavros Merjos, Los Angeles Neal Meltzer Fine Art, New York Phillips, New York, 16 May 2013, lot 22 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Exhibited Phillips, London, American African American, 8 - 25 November 2017 New York, Nahmad Contemporary, Jean-Michel Basquiat | Xerox, 12 March - 31 May 2019 Literature Jean-Louis Prat and Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 1996, no. 4, p. 65 (illustrated, p. 64) Tony Shafrazi et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999, p. 65 (illustrated) Jean-Louis Prat and Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2000, no. 5, p. 89 (illustrated, p. 88)
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