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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 10, 2016 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 15 | $****** - ****** | Untitled (Head of Madman) | |||
Nov 12, 2013 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale | 6 | $****** - ****** | Untitled (Head of Madman) |
paintings
109.2 x 78.1 cm (42.99 x 30.75 in)
oilstick on paper mounted on linen
Diego Cortez, New York.
Raphael Blier, Paris.
Diego Cortez, New York.
Peter Brams Collection, New Jersey.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996.
Clinton, Hamilton College, Fred L. Emerson Gallery and Exeter, Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, Collection Peter Brams: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gilbert & George, Milan Kunc, David McDermott & Peter McGough, Philip Taaffe, Rosemarie Trockel, December 1986-March 1987, pp. 12-13 (illustrated). Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, oeuvres sur papier works on paper, May-September 1997, pp. 56-57 and 184 (illustrated in color). Osaka, Kirin Plaza, Basquiat + Haring + Scharf from the Lio Malca Collection, August-September 1998, p. 21 (illustrated in color). Havana, GalerÃÂa Haydée Santamaria, Casa de las Américas and Havana, Museo del Ron, Fundación Havana Club, 7a Bienalde La Habana: Jean-Michel Basquiat, November 2000-January 2001, pp. 92-93 (illustrated in color). Brooklyn Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat, March 2005-February 2006, p. 60 (illustrated in color). New York, Van de Weghe Fine Art, Jean-Michel Basquiat Heads, March-May 2006. Chadds Ford, Brandywine River Museum; San Antonio, McNay Art Museum and Rockland, Farnsworth Art Museum, Factory Work: Warhol, Wyeth, Basquiat, September 2006-August 2007, pp. 20-21 and 98, no. 55 (illustrated in color). Santander, Fundación Marcelino Botin and Rome, Fondazione Memmo, Palazzo Ruspoli, Ahuyentando Fantasmas (Fantasmi da scacciare), July 2008-February 2009, pp. 60-61 (Santander; illustrated in color); pp. 48-49 no. 3 (Rome; illustrated in color). Basel, Fondation Beyeler and Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Basquiat, May 2010-January 2011, p. 103, no. 85 (Basel; illustrated in color); p. 99, no. 80 (Paris; illustrated in color).
J. Gasperini, "Brams Collection Proves an Important Example of Modern Art," The Exonian, 28 February 1987, p. 9 (illustrated). M. Clark, "Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy/Exeter Collection Peter Brams," Art New England, May 1987. B. Blistene, et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, Paris, 1999, p. 163 (illustrated in color). J.L. Chalumeau, Basquiat: 1960-1988, Paris, 2003, p. 19, no. 13 (illustrated in color). R. Davis Konigsberg, "Fiction Chronicle," New York Times, 15 May 2005 (illustrated in color). B. Okri, "On Basquiat," Modern Painters, May 2005, p. 63 (illustrated in color). G. Mercurio, ed. The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show, exh. cat., Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, 2006, p. 152, no. 34 (illustrated in color). Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2010, Appendix, pp. 10 and 11 (illustrated in color). P. Larratt-Smith, Bye Bye American Pie, exh. cat., Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 2012, p. 18 (illustrated in color).
