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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled

12 March 2023 in Art Comment

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
Signed “Jean-Michel Basquiat” on the reverse
Tempera and oilstick on paper
40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.3 cm)
Executed in 1982, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Provenance
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica
Private Collection
Christie’s, New York, May 20, 1999, lot 187
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

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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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1983

8 August 2020 in Art Comment

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1983

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

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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.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat — Untitled (Velveeta), 1984

24 February 2019 in Art Comment

Jean-Michel Basquiat - Untitled (Velveeta), 1984

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Velveeta)
Acrylic, oilstick, resin, paper and canvas collage on canvas
167.6 x 152.4 cm (65 7/8 x 60 in.)
Executed circa 1984.

A study in colour and abstraction, Untitled (Velveeta), 1984 epitomises Jean-Michel Basquiat’s distinctly feverish visual repertoire. Bringing together disparate iconographic fields, Untitled (Velveeta) merges figurative expression, abstract forms, street vernacular and mathematic signs. Executed in acrylic, oilstick, resin and paper and canvas collage on canvas, the present work exemplifies Basquiat’s prodigious ability to conjure pictorial complexity on a single plane. From the estate of the artist, Untitled (Velveeta) is a rare masterwork by the artist who, until his tragic and untimely death in 1988, revolutionised the medium of painting and the history of contemporary art itself.

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Blue Sky Balance (Ascending) — Ryan McGinley

13 February 2019 in Photography Comment

Blue Sky Balance (Ascending) by Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley
Blue Sky Balance (Ascending)
Signed “Ryan McGinley” on a label affixed to the backing board

Chromogenic print
Image 20 x 13 in. (50.8 x 33 cm.)
Sheet 20 1/2 x 14 in. (52.1 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed in 2008-2009, this work is number 3 from an edition of 3.

Estimate
$5,000 – 7,000

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