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Property from a Prestigious Private French Collection

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Action Comics One

Auction Closed

November 16, 02:02 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000,000 - 9,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious Private French Collection

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1960 - 1988


Action Comics One

signed, titled and dated Nov. 1983 (on the reverse) 

acrylic, colored pencil and oilstick on canvas 

66 ⅛ by 60 ¼ in. 168 by 153 cm.

Executed in 1983. 

Ira Young, Vancouver

Private Collection, New York 

Christie's New York, 4 November 1987, lot 304 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection

Perrin-Royère-Lajeunesse Versaille, 18 June 1988, lot 122

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Paris, Galerie Pascal Lansberg, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October - December 2010, pp. 16-17, illustrated in color

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 3rd ed., vol. 2, 2000, no. 7, pp. 156-157, illustrated in color