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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
Farina
signed, titled and dated '1984 "FARINA" Jean-Michel-Basquiat' (on the reverse)
acrylic and oilstick on canvas
86 x 68 in. (218.4 x 172.7 cm.)
Painted in 1984.
Provenance
Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993
Literature
Casa Vogue (Italia), April 1995, pp. 104, 106 (illustrated).
New York Magazine, October 1995, pp. 40-41 (illustrated).
A. Taschen and B. Wedekind, New York Interiors, Cologne, 1997, pp. 90-91 (illustrated).
New York Living, January 1998, p. 23 (installation view illustrated).
E. Navarra et al., Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Vol. II, Paris, 2000, pp. 202-203, no. 5 (illustrated).
J.M. Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2014, p. 23.
R. Isken, Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon, London and New York, 2017, p. 61.
Exhibited
Barcelona, Dau al Set Galeria d'Art, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, December 1989, n.p., no. 10 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Jean-Michel-Basquiat: Made in Japan, September-November 2019, p. 191 (illustrated).
Melbourne, The National Gallery of Victoria, Keith Haring & Jean-Michel-Basquiat: Crossing Lines, November 2019-March 2020, p. 131 (illustrated).
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