Jean-Michel Basquiat - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • “I get my facts from books, stuff on atomizers, the blues, ethyl alcohol, geese in Egyptian glyphs, […] I don’t take credit for my facts. The facts exist without me.”
    —Jean-Michel Basquiat 

    • Condition Report

    • Description

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    • Provenance

      Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
      Christie’s, London, October 15, 2011, lot 259
      Private Collection
      Phillips, New York, September 19, 2013, lot 43
      Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Paris, Cahiers d’Art, Jean-Michel Basquiat & A.R. Penck, April 6–May 27, 2023

    • Artist Biography

      Jean-Michel Basquiat

      American • 1960 - 1988

      One of the most famous American artists of all time, Jean-Michel Basquiat first gained notoriety as a subversive graffiti-artist and street poet in the late 1970s. Operating under the pseudonym SAMO, he emblazoned the abandoned walls of the city with his unique blend of enigmatic symbols, icons and aphorisms. A voracious autodidact, by 1980, at 22-years of age, Basquiat began to direct his extraordinary talent towards painting and drawing. His powerful works brilliantly captured the zeitgeist of the 1980s New York underground scene and catapulted Basquiat on a dizzying meteoric ascent to international stardom that would only be put to a halt by his untimely death in 1988.

      Basquiat's iconoclastic oeuvre revolves around the human figure. Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African-American and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources.

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Untitled

signed and dated "Jean-Michel Basquiat 87" on the reverse
oilstick on paper
16 1/8 x 13 7/8 in. (41 x 35.2 cm)
Executed in 1987, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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Estimate
$180,000 - 250,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024