Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled, 1983
oilstick on paper
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Executed in 1983
Provenance
Elise Boisanté Fine Arts, New York
PS Gallery, Tokyo (acquired from the above in August 1985)
Private Collection, United States
Phillips, London, March, 8, 2018, lot 26
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Tokyo, PS Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 8 – December 4, 1987
Tokyo, Min Min Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, April 11 – 15, 2015
Artist Bio
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.