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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)
titled ‘EL GRAN ESPECTACULO’ (upper center); signed, titled and dated '“THE NILE” 1983 Jean-Michel-Basquiat' (on the reverse)
acrylic and oilstick on canvas mounted on wooden supports, in three parts
overall: 68 x 141 in. (172.7 x 358 cm.)
Executed in 1983.
Provenance
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Enrico Navarra, Paris
Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 9 November 2005, lot 38
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
M. Enrici, J. M. Basquiat, Paris, 1989, pp. 72-73 (illustrated).
R. D. Marshall and J.-L. Prat, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Paris, 1996, 1st edition, vol. 1, pp. 130-131 (illustrated); 2nd edition, vol. 1, pp. 180-181 and 395 (illustrated and titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1999, pp. 194-195 and 319-320 (illustrated and titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
A. Mazrui, C. Davies and I. Okpewho, eds., The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities, Bloomington, 1999, pp. 447-448, fig. 3 (illustrated and titled as Untitled [History of Black People]).
Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel-Basquiat: Drawings, New York, 1999, p. 369 (detail view illustrated).
Terzoocchio, vol. 25, 1999.
R. D. Marshall and J.-L. Prat, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Paris, 2000, 3rd edition, vol. 1, pp. 174-175; vol. 2, pp. 162-163, no. 2 (illustrated and titled as titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
Basquiat a Cuneo, exh. cat., Cuneo, Galleria d’Arte Il Prisma, 2001, p. 72 (detail view illustrated).
A. Marwick, The Arts in the West since 1945, New York, 2002, p. 296 (titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
G. Lock and D. Murray, eds., The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art, New York, 2009, p. 257.
K. Mercer, ed., Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers, Cambridge, 2009, pp. 136-137 (illustrated and titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
Galerie Enrico Navarra (ed.), Jean-Michel-Basquiat: Appendix, Paris 2010, pp. 34 and 45 (installation view illustrated and titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
Basquiat, exh. cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2010, pp. 130-131, no. 137 (illustrated and titled as The Nile [El Gran Spectacle]).
V. Duponchelle, "Basquiat, l’artiste roi et sa couronne d’épines," Le Figaro, 1 June 2010 (titled as The Nile [El Gran Espectaculo]).
C. Remeseira, ed., Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook, New York, 2010, p. 438 (titled as Untitled [History of Black People]).
Basquiat and the Bayou, exh. cat., New Orleans, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 2014, pp. 60-61, pl. 5 (illustrated and titled as El Gran Espectáculo [History of Black People]).
C. M. Tatum, ed., Encyclopedia of Latino Culture, vol. 1, Santa Barbara, 2014, p. 217 (titled as The Nile).
J. Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, New York, 2014, pp. 23, 36-38, 40, 47, 116, 138-139, and 107, pl. 14 (illustrated and titled as The Nile).
Words are All We Have: Paintings by Jean-Michel-Basquiat, exh. cat., New York, Nahmad Contemporary, 2016, pp. 60-61, no. 8 (illustrated and titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of black people]).
R. Iskin, ed., Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World, New York, 2017, p. 67, no. 2.3 (illustrated and titled as The Nile).
F. Hoffman, The Art of Jean-Michel-Basquiat, New York, 2017, pp. 49, 56, 58-59, 62, 122, 148, 206, 212 and 244 (illustrated and titled as The Nile).
C.-M. Bernier, Stick to the Skin, Oakland, 2018, pp. 111-112, fig. 28 (illustrated and titled as [Untitled] History of Black People).
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2018, pp. 22, 40, 42-43, no. 2 (illustrated and titled as The Nile).
A. Vink, Postmodern Artists: Creators of a Cultural Movement, New York, 2019, p. 83 (titled as The Nile).
J. Saggese, ed., The Jean-Michel-Basquiat Reader, Oakland, 2021, pp. 159, 168-169, 272, 305-306 and 314, pl. 25 (illustrated and titled as The Nile [El Gran Espectaculo]).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel-Basquiat: Paintings, Sculptures, Works on Paper and Drawings, November-December 1989 pp. 32-33 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Houston, Menil Collection, Des Moines Art Center and Montgomery, Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, October 1992-January 1994, pp. 23-24, 152 and 266 (illustrated and detail view illustrated; titled as Untitled [History of Black People]).
Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, April-June 1996.
Kaohsiung, Museum of Fine Arts and Taiwan, Taichung Museum, January-June 1997, pp. 52-53 (illustrated).
Seoul, Gallery Hyundai, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, July-August 1997 pp. 48-49 (illustrated).
Vancouver, Art Beatus, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, September-October 1997, pp. 34-35 (illustrated and titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum and Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, October 1997-May 1998, pp. 18 and 50-51 (illustrated and detail view illustrated)
São Paulo, Pinacoteca, Jean-Michel-Basquiat: Pinturas, June-September 1998, pp. 61-63 and 112 (illustrated and detail view illustrated).
Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Basquiat a Venezia, June-October 1999, pp. 86-87 (illustrated and titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, Jean-Michel-Basquiat: Dipinti, January-March 2002, pp. 86-87 (illustrated and illustrated on the exhibition poster; titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel-Basquiat: Histoire d’une œuvre, June-October 2003, pp. 66-67 (illustrated and titled as El Gran Espectaculo [History of Black People]).
Cologne, Jablonka Galerie, Jean-Michel-Basquiat: Paintings, October 2003-January 2004.
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, October-December 2004, pp. 46-47 (illustrated).
New York, Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat, March 2005-February 2006, pp. 45, 52, 106, 135, 168, 170 and 177 (illustrated, detail view illustrated, and illustrated on the front and back covers of the Members Preview brochure; titled as The Nile).
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