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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 10, 2016 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 15 | $****** - ****** | UNTITLED (HEAD OF MADMAN) | |||
Nov 12, 2013 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale | 6 | $****** - ****** | Untitled (Head of Madman) |
paintings
109.2 x 78.1 cm (42.99 x 30.75 in)
oilstick on paper laid down on canvas
Diego Cortez, New York
Raphael Blier, Paris
Diego Cortez, New York
Peter Brams, New Jersey
Leo Malca, New York (acquired from the above in 1996)
Christie?s, New York, Contemporary Art Evening Auction, 12 November 2013, Lot 6
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Clinton, Hamilton College, Fred L. Emerson Gallery; and Exeter, Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, Collection Peter Brams: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gilbert & George, Milan Kunc, David McDermott & Peter McGough, Philip Taaffe, Rosemarie Trockel, 1986-87, p. 13, no. 12, illustrated
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Mus?e Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Oeuvres sur Papier, 1997, p. 57, illustrated in colour
Havana, Casa de las Am?ricas and La Fundaci?n Havana Club, Basquiat: en la Habana, 2000-01, p. 93, illustrated in colour
New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Basquiat, 2005-06, p. 60, illustrated in colour
New York, Van de Weghe Fine Art, Basquiat: Heads, 2006
Chadds Ford, Brandywine River Museum; San Antonio, McNay Art Museum; and Rockland, Farnsworth Art Museum, Factory Work: Warhol, Wyeth, Basquiat, 2006-07, p. 21, no. 55, illustrated in colour
Santander, Fundación Botin; and Rome, Fondazione Memmo, Palazzo Ruspoli, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Ahuyentando Fantasmas / Fantasmi da scacciare, 2008-09, p. 61, illustrated in colour (Santander); and p. 49, no. 3, illustrated in colour (Rome)
Basel, Fondation Beyeler; and Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Basquiat, 2010-11, p. 103, no. 85, illustrated in colour (Basel); and p. 99, no. 80, illustrated in colour (Paris)
New York, Nahmad Contemporary, Poetics of the Gesture: Schiele, Twombly, Basquiat, 2014
J. Gasperini, Brams Collection Proves an Important Example of Modern Art, The Exonian, 28 February 1987, p. 9, illustrated
Margot Clark, 'Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy/Exeter Collection Peter Brams', Art New England, May 1987, p. 25 (text)
Richard Marshall, Ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, Paris 1999, p. 163, illustrated in colour
Jean Luc Chalumeau, Basquiat: 1960-1988, Paris 2003, p. 19, no. 13, illustrated in colour
Ruth Davis Konigsberg, 'Fiction Chronicle', New York Times, 15 May 2005, p. 37, illustrated in colour
Ben Okri, 'On Basquiat', Modern Painters, May 2005, p. 63, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Milan, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show, 2006-07, p. 152, no. 34, illustrated in colour
Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Appendix, Paris 2010, p. 10, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Bye Bye American Pie, 2012, p. 18, illustrated in colour
