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Onion Gum by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Onion Gum, 1983

Acrylic and oilstick on canvas
198.8 x 203.2 cm (78.25 x 80 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (11 May 2016)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 11, 2016
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art Evening Auction38
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Onion Gum
Nov 13, 2012
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art Evening Auction42
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Onion Gum
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

198.8 x 203.2 cm (78.25 x 80 in)

Materials

acrylic and oilstick on canvas

Signature

titled on the reverse

Provenance

Mary Boone, New York / Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

Private Collection, United States

Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 2012, Lot 42

Private Collection, New York

Exhibited

Malmö, Rooseum, Jean-Michel Basquiat & Julian Schnabel, April - May 1989.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center; and Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 1992 - January 1994

Trieste, Museo Revoltella, Jean-Michel Basquiat, May - September 1999

Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna della Citta di Lugano, Jean-Michel Basquiat, March - June 2005

St. Moritz, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Jean-Michel Basquiat, December 2010 - January 2011

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, February - April 2013

Literature

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 1996, 2nd Ed., Vol. II, p. 100, no. 2, illustrated in color

Mauro Covacich, La poetica dell'Unabomber, Rome, 1999, illustrated in color on the cover (detail)

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2000, 3rd Ed., Vol. II, p. 154, no. 2, illustrated in color