Jean-Michel Basquiat

Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles

Kamran Diba, Paris (acquired from the above in 1983)

Faggionato Fine Arts, London

Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, London

Christie's London, 13 February 2013, lot 30 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: New Paintings, March - April 1983

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions Privées: Collections particulières d'art moderne et contemporain en France, December 1995 - March 1996, no. 5, p. 592 (text) and p. 593, illustrated in color

Basel, Fondation Beyeler and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Basquiat, May 2010 - January 2011, p. 116, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983) and p. 118, illustrated in color (Basel); p. 114, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983) and p. 128, illustrated in color (Paris)

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, September 2014 - September 2018 (on long-term loan)

Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, March 2018 - January 2019, p. 15 (text), fig. 3, p. 133, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983), and no. 84, pp. 224-25, illustrated in color

New York, Brant Foundation, Jean-Michel Basquiat, March - May 2019, p. 76, illustrated in color (in installation) and p. 79, illustrated in color and p. 178 (text)

Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street, March - June 2024, pp. 24-25, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983), pp. 77-78 (text) and pp. 83, 166, illustrated in color

Seoul, Dongdaemun Design Plaza Museum, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Signs: Connecting Past and Future, September 2025 - January 2026, no. 63, p. 181, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the front cover)

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1992-94, p. 251, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983)

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2nd Ed., Vol. II, Paris 1996, no. 7, p. 100, illustrated in color and p. 101 (text)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, 1997, p. 159, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983)

Tony Shafrazi, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York 1999, p. 186, illustrated in color and p. 328, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983)

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., Vol. II, Paris 2000, p. 154, illustrated in color and p. 155 (text)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Work of a Lifetime, 2003, p. 150, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983)

Jordana Moore Saggese, Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, Berkeley 2014, p. 155 (text)

Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, eds., Jean-Michel Basquiat: Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) (Monograph), Munich 2015, fig. 41, pp. 1, 4, 10-11, 23-24, 26-27, 30, 34, 37, 40 (text), pp. 2-3, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983), pp. 5, 17, illustrated in color (installed in Basel, Beyeler Fondation, 2014), p. 12, illustrated in color (installed in Basel, Beyeler Fondation, 2010), pp. 33, 71, 87, illustrated in color (detail), p. 41, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the front and back covers) 

Blake Gopnik, "We've Been Looking at Jean-Michel Basquiat All Wrong. He Was a Conceptual Artist, Not an Expressionist—and Here's Why," artnet News, 5 March 2019, illustrated in color (online)

Martha Schwendener, "‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ at the Brant Shows His Bifurcated Life," The New York Times, 6 March 2019, p. C1, illustrated in color (detail)

Lindy Percival, "Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art Stars Who Shone Too Briefly," The Sunday Morning Herald, 22 November 2019, illustrated in color (online)

Steph Harmon, "Basquiat and Haring: Unprecedented Art Show Revives the 'Manic Draftsmen' of 80s New York," The Guardian, 29 November 2019, illustrated in color (online)

Exh. Cat., Vienna, The Albertina Museum, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Of Symbols and Signs, 2022-23, fig. 7, p. 27, illustrated in color and p. 35 (text)

Demicia Inman, "Boardwalk Pictures Announces Jean-Michel Basquiat 'King Pleasure' Documentary," Vibe Magazine, 31 July 2023, illustrated in color (online)

Maxwell Rabb, "Basquiat's L.A. Paintings Debut at Gagosian for the First Time this March," Artsy, 7 February 2024 (text) (online)

Hadley Meares, "When Basquiat Painted and Partied in L.A. (and Took Madonna to the Fox Commissary)," The Hollywood Reporter, 6 March 2024, illustrated in color (online)

Jori Finkel, "Revisiting Jean-Michel Basquiat's Los Angeles Breakthroughs," The Art Newspaper, 7 March 2024 (text) (online)

Nate Freedman, "How Gagosian's Blockbuster LA Basquiat Show Happened," Vanity Fair, 8 March 2024 (text) (online)

Lisane Basquiat, Jeanine Heriveaux, Larry Gagosian, et. al, "Jean-Michel Basquiat: Los Angeles," Gagosian Quarterly, Spring 2024, p. 61, illustrated in color (installed in Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1983) and p. 68, illustrated in color

Victoria Valentine, "On View: 'Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street' at Gagosian Beverly Hills, Explores Artist's Early 1980s Experience in Los Angeles," Culture Type, 9 May 2024, illustrated in color (installed in, Los Angeles, Gagosian, 2024) (online)

Park Han-sol, "Basquiat's Kingdom of Crowns and Chaos Unleashed in Seoul," The Korea Times, 10 October 2025, illustrated in color (online)