Details
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
Brain
signed and dated' Jean-Michel-Basquiat 85' (on the underside of the bootblack stand)
acrylic, oilstick, Xerox paper collage and gesso on twenty-seven wood blocks with bootblack stand
overall: 48 x 43 1/2 x 17 in. (122 x 110.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed in 1985.
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Provenance
Diego Cortez Arte Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990
Literature
E. Navarra, J.L. Prat, et al, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Paris, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 142-143, no. 10 (illustrated).
E. Navarra, J.L. Prat, et al, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Paris, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 238-239, no. 10 (illustrated).
D. Murray and G. Lock, eds., The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art, Oxford, 2009, p. 279.
E. Fretz, Jean-Michel-Basquiat: A Biography, New York, 2010, pp. 140, 142, 180 and 191.
J. M. Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, Berkeley, 2014, pp. 77 and 212.
J. M. Saggese, ed., The Jean-Michel-Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses, Berkeley, 2021, p. 235.
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, Menil Collection; Des Moines Art Center; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, October 1992-January 1994, p. 207 and 266 (illustrated).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Miami, Pérez Art Museum, Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation, October 2020-July 2021, pp. 164-165 and 195, no. 117 (illustrated).
Details
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
Brain
signed and dated' Jean-Michel-Basquiat 85' (on the underside of the bootblack stand)
acrylic, oilstick, Xerox paper collage and gesso on twenty-seven wood blocks with bootblack stand
overall: 48 x 43 1/2 x 17 in. (122 x 110.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed in 1985.
28
Provenance
Diego Cortez Arte Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990
Literature
E. Navarra, J.L. Prat, et al, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Paris, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 142-143, no. 10 (illustrated).
E. Navarra, J.L. Prat, et al, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Paris, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 238-239, no. 10 (illustrated).
D. Murray and G. Lock, eds., The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art, Oxford, 2009, p. 279.
E. Fretz, Jean-Michel-Basquiat: A Biography, New York, 2010, pp. 140, 142, 180 and 191.
J. M. Saggese, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, Berkeley, 2014, pp. 77 and 212.
J. M. Saggese, ed., The Jean-Michel-Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses, Berkeley, 2021, p. 235.
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, Menil Collection; Des Moines Art Center; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel-Basquiat, October 1992-January 1994, p. 207 and 266 (illustrated).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Miami, Pérez Art Museum, Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation, October 2020-July 2021, pp. 164-165 and 195, no. 117 (illustrated).
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