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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2019 | Phillips | New York | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 26 | $****** - ****** | The Ring | |||
May 9, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 4 | $****** - ****** | The Ring | |||
Jun 9, 1999 | Christie's | Los Angeles | 20th Century & Contemporary Art including Prints & Multiples | 196 | $****** - ****** | The Ring |
paintings
152.4 x 121.9 cm (60 x 47.99 in)
acrylic and oilstick on canvas
signed, partially titled and dated “Jean Michel Basquiat “RING” 1981” on the reverse
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
Private Collection, East Coast (acquired from the above in November 1982)
Christie’s, Los Angeles, June 9, 1999, lot 196
Estate of Theodore J. Forstman (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby’s, New York, May 9, 2012, lot 4
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time, February 7 - November 1, 2015, p. 222 (illustrated, p. 73)
New York, Mnuchin Gallery, REDS, April 27 - June 9, 2018, pp. 54, 95 (illustrated, p. 55)
Jean-Louis Prat and Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2000, no. 4, p. 93 (illustrated, p. 92)
Fred Hoffman, Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing: Work from the Schorr Family Collection, exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries, New York, 2014, p. 93 (illustrated, p. 92)
Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling, Cologne, 2018, pp. 14, 493 (illustrated, p. 15)
signed, partially titled and dated “Jean Michel Basquiat “RING” 1981” on the reverse
acrylic and oilstick on canvas
60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm.)
Executed in 1981, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
