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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2013 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale | 50 | $****** - ****** | Pre-Agrav | |||
Feb 7, 2001 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art (Part I) | 53 | $****** - ****** | Pre-Agrav | |||
Jun 28, 1987 | Versailles Encheres | Versailles | General Sale | 34 | $****** - ****** | Pre-Agrav |
paintings
167 x 149.8 cm (65.75 x 58.98 in)
acrylic on canvas
signed, titled and dated 'Jean-Michel Basquiat 1984 "PRE-AGRAV"' (on the reverse)
Private collection.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 February 2001, lot 53.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Stanford, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, January 2006-June 2008 (on loan). Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, July 2008-March 2009 (on loan). Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Face Forward, April-September 2009. Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Basquiat/Warhol, January-April 2010. Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Contemporary Masters, June 2010-August 2011. Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Motion and Emotion: Contemporary Art from Gerhard Richter to Chakaia Booker, January 2012-June 2012. Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Unity and Fragmentation: Selections from the Permanent Collection, March 2013-June 2013.
R.D. Marshall and J.L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 1996, vol. II, pp. 132-133, no. 3 (illustrated in color). Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2000, vol. II, pp. 216-217, no. 3 (illustrated in color). Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2010, Appendix, p. 37. D. Kany, "Good and plenty: Warhol's Polaroids at Bowdoin," Portland Press Herald, 21 February 2010, p. D6.
