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Property from the Collection of Enrico Navarra

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Gravestone

Auction Closed

May 16, 01:17 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Enrico Navarra

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1960 - 1988


Gravestone

signed and titled (on the reverse)

acrylic and oilstick on three hinged wood panels 

57 by 69 by 22 in.

144.8 by 175 by 56 cm.

Executed in 1987.

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya (by 1992)

Twiga, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired by 1996)

Acquired from the above in October 2002 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1992-94, p. 248, illustrated

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1st Ed., Vol. I, Paris 1996, p. 335, illustrated in color

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2nd Ed., Vol. II, Paris 1996, p. 187, illustrated in color and p. 217 (text)

Exh., Cat., Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1999, p. 27, illustrated in color (in installation with the artist in his studio, New York, 1987)

Exh. Cat., Naples, Museo Civico Castel Nuovo, Jean-Michel Basquiat a Napoli, 1999-2000, p. 20, illustrated in color (in installation with the artist in his studio, New York, 1987)

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., Vol. II, Paris 2000, no. 7, pp. 52, 256, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Work of a Lifetime, 2003, p. 29, illustrated in color

Milan, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show, 2006-07, p. 29, illustrated in color (in installation with the artist in his studio, New York, 1987)

Eric Fretz, Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography, Santa Barbara 2010, p. 157 (text)

Exh. Cat., Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bunderepublik Deutschland, Ménage a trois: Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente, 2012, p. 131 (text) and p. 132, illustrated in color

Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Jean-Michel Basquiat, January - February 1988

Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat, March 2005 - February 2006, p. 155, illustrated in color 

Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, Jean-Michel Basquiat: New York City, Opere dalla Mugrabi Collection, March - July 2017, pp. 96-97, illustrated in color and p. 141 (text)

New York, Nahmad Contemporary, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood, April - June 2022, pl. 46, p. 23 (text) and pp. 272-73, 276-77, illustrated in color

Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Basquiat x Warhol: Painting Four Hands, April - August 2023, pp. 11, 27, 354 (text) and pp. 332-33, illustrated in color

New York, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Basquiat x Warhol, November 2023 - January 2024