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Inv. n°: CL95

Untitled (head)

Ownership passed to Gina Levett. Graffiti, Underground, Primitivism.

h. 76.2 x w. 55.9 cm
1983
Acrylic and oil stick on paper laid down on canvas

Provenance

  • Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • From the above to Robert Miller Gallery, New York
  • Andre Heller Collection, New York and Vienna, 1990-2017, Andre Heller, personal friend of Basquiat, purchased this work from the Robert Miller Gallery exhibition Basquiat Drawings in 1990 and remained in his collection ever since. The frame was made by Basquiat and Heller on the floor of Basquiat’s studio in 1987. Heller then put the picture in the frame after buying the picture from the Robert Miller show and it remained in the frame for the 27 subsequent years that he owned it. Thus, the two really belong together, although they were made at different times. Museums don’t like to show the picture in the frame and it wasn’t presented in the frame during the Robert Miller show.
  • Sold by Andre Heller, 2017
  • Andre Heller Collection, New York and Vienna, 2017
  • Acquired at Amir Shariat, Vienna, 2017

Publications

  • R. Storr, in J. Cheim (ed.), Jean-Michel Basquiat. Drawings, Bulfinch Press Book, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1990, p. 5-7, no. 37
  • B. Blistène, E. Ochoa, R.F. Thompson, R.D. Marshall, Catalogue raisonné: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Works on Paper, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1999, p. 156
  • D. Buchhart, "Basquiat: Radical Innovator Between the Everyday, Knowledge, and Myth", Jean-Michel Basquiat, W & K – Wienerroither & Kohlbacher, Vienna/New York, 2016, Front Cover, p. 14-19
  • M. Garrigues, "Et si on assistait à la Nocturne "Jean-Michel Basquiat" à la Fondation Louis Vuitton ?", Vogue, October 5, 2018, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.vogue.fr/culture/a-voir/diaporama/basquiat-a-lhonneur-dune-exposition-exceptionnelle-a-la-fondation-louis-vuitton/48827
  • D. Buchhart, E. Nairne, Basquiat Boom for Real', Catalogue de l'exposition « Jean-Michel Basquiat » présentée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton du 3 octobre 2018 au 14 janvier 2019, Gallimard, October 11, 2018, p. 82, no. 24 (illustrated)
  • "La fureur Basquiat à la fondation Louis Vuitton", Connaissance des arts, October 1, 2018, Front Cover
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat Made in Japan, Exhibition Venue Limited, 2019
  • D. Buchhart et al., Ketih Haring/Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Line, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, December 1, 2019
  • "Exhibitions:This is Jean-Michel Basquiat – From Tag on the Wall to the Hottest Name in the Art Scene, 21st March 2018", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, , [On-line]. Available at: https://www.schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2018/basquiat/
  • "Egon Schiele and Jean-Michel Basquiat", Gagosian Quarterly, Spring 2019, p. 3 (illustration in table of contents)

Exhibitions

  • Basquiat Drawings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
  • Basquiat Boom for Real, Barbican Centre (Self-portraits Room), London, UK, September 21, 2017 — January 28, 2018
  • Basquiat Boom for Real, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, February 26, 2018 — May 27, 2018
  • Egon Schiele-Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, October 2, 2018 — January 14, 2019
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Brant Foundation Art Study Centre, inauguration of the New York space, New York, USA, March 6, 2019 — May 14, 2019
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat Made in Japan, Mori Arts Centre Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, September 21, 2019 — November 17, 2019
  • Keith Haring/Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, December 1, 2019 — April 13, 2020

© The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / Adagp, Paris 2022

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