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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Evening Auction | 129 | $****** - ****** | Self-Portrait as a Heel (Part Two) | |||
May 19, 1999 | Christie's | New York | Contemporary Art | 16 | $****** - ****** | Self-Portrait as a Heel (Part Two) |
paintings
243.8 x 156.2 cm (96 x 61.5 in)
acrylic and oilstick on canvas
signed, titled, dated 1982 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Stéphane Janssen, Belgium (acquired by 1985)
Christie"s New York, 19 May 1999, lot 16 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Blain Southern Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: New Paintings, March - April 1983
Berkeley, University Art Museum of California; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; and Santa Barbara, University Art Museum, Jean Michel Basquiat , January - August 1985, no. 1
Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Long Beach, California State University Art Museum; Norman, University of Oklahoma Museum of Art; Miami, Florida International University, The Art Museum; and Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Portrait of a Collector: Stephane Janssen , April 1986 - April 1988, no. 14, illustrated in color (on the poster for the exhibition) and p. 47 illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 1992 - January 1994, p. 61, illustrated and p. 147, illustrated in color
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 1st. Ed., vol. I, Paris, 1996, p. 70, illustrated in color and p. 387; vol. II, p. 51, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat , 2nd Ed., vol. I, Paris, 1996, p. 94, illustrated in color and p. 390; vol. II, p. 51, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983)
Bob Colacello, "Schnabel"s Basquiat,” Vanity Fair, August 1996, p. 114, illustrated in color
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., vol. I, Paris, 2000, p. 90, illustrated in color; vol. II, no. 7, pp. 108-109, illustrated in color
Alison Pearlman, Unpackaging Art of the 1980s , Chicago, 2003, fig. 10, p. 74 and illustrated in color (on the insert)
Galerie Enrico Navarra, et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat , 3rd Ed., appendix, Paris, 2010, no. 7, p. 29
Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, Basquiat: Museum Security , Munich, 2015, n.p., illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983)
Rene Ricard and Robert Farris Thompson , Jean-Michel Basquiat , New York, 2015, p. 120, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983)
Fred Hoffman, ed., The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 2017, p. 17, illustrated in color
Jordana Moore Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, Berkley, 2021, p. 131
Property from an Important Private Collection
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960 - 1988
Self-Portrait as a Heel (Part Two)
signed, titled, dated 1982 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
acrylic and oilstick on canvas
96 by 61 ½ in. 243.8 by 156.2 cm.
Executed in 1982.
