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Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta, 1983

Acrylic, oilstick and paper collage on five joined canvases
124.5 x 471.2 cm (49.02 x 185.51 in)
Paintings
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (14 May 2014)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 14, 2014
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art Evening Sale20
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Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta
Nov 2, 1994
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art - Part II300
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Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

124.5 x 471.2 cm (49.02 x 185.51 in)

Materials

acrylic, oilstick and paper collage on five joined canvases

Signature

titled

Provenance

Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York

Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Phyllis Kramer, New York

Sotheby's, New York, November 2, 1994, Lot 300

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October - November 1989, cat. no. 21, n.p., illustrated in color; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 1992 - January 1994, pp. 166-167, illustrated in color; London, Serpentine Gallery; Málaga, Palacio Espiscopal de Málaga, Jean-Michel Basquiat, March - July 1996; New York, Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat, March 2005 - February 2006, pp. 110-111, illustrated in color and p. 166 (text); Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Basquiat, May - October 2010, cat. no. 135, pp. 126-127, illustrated in color; Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Basquiat, October 2010 - January 2011, cat. no. 135, pp. 124-125, illustrated in color; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Blues for Smoke, October 2012 - April 2013

Literature

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1st ed., Vol. II, Paris, 1996, pp. 6-7, illustrated in color; Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2nd ed., Vol. II, Paris, 1996, pp. 6-7, illustrated in color; Tony Shafrazi, Jeffrey Deitch, Richard D. Marshall, et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999, p. 25, illustrated in color (detail) and pp. 196-197, illustrated in color; Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd ed., Vol. I, Paris, 2000, pp. 180-181, illustrated in color; Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd ed., Vol. II, Paris, 2000, cat. no. 4, p. 162, illustrated in color; Exh. Cat., New York, Van de Weghe Fine Art, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, 2007, fig. 11, p. 26, illustrated in color (detail);