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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 5, 2019 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 18 | $****** - ****** | Four Big |
paintings
198.1 x 160 cm (78 x 63 in)
acrylic, oil stick and paper collage on three joined canvases
signed, titled and dated '"FOUR BIG" BASQUIAT 82' (on the reverse of the central canvas)
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Zurich, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Jean-Michel Basquiat: New Works, 1982.
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Une Rétrospective, 1992, p. 66 (illustrated in colour, p. 67).
Trieste, Museo Revoltella, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1999, p. 26 (illustrated in colour, p. 27).
R. Marshall & J.L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris 1996, vol. II, pp. 138 & 393 (illustrated in colour, p. 139).
R. Marshall & J.L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris 2000, vol. I, p. 134 (illustrated in colour, p. 134).
R. Marshall & J.L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris 2000, vol. II, pp. 144 & 145, no. 3 (illustrated in colour, p. 144).
E. Nairne, Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling, Cologne 2018, p. 493 (illustrated in colour, p. 153).
signed, titled and dated '"FOUR BIG" BASQUIAT 82' (on the reverse of the central canvas)
acrylic, oil stick and paper collage on three joined canvases
overall: 78 x 63in. (198.1 x 160cm.)
Executed in 1982
