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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 10B | $****** - ****** | Il Duce |
paintings
152.4 x 152.4 cm (60 x 60 in)
acrylic, oilstick and spray paint on canvas
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'Jean-Michel Basquiat NYC 82 "IL DUCE"' (on the reverse)
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, acquired directly from the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, New York Now, November 1982-January 1983, p. 41, no. 10 (illustrated).
Pully/Lausanne, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Jean-Michel Basquiat, July-November 1993, pp. 40 and 126 (illustrated in color).
Trieste, Museo Revoltella Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, May-September 1999, pp. 44-45 (illustrated in color).
Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, March-June 2005, p. 32, no. 10 (illustrated in color)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, The 80s Revisited. From the Bischofberger Collection, Part II, March-June 2011, p. 107 (illustrated in color).
Ishøj, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Warhol & Basquiat, September 2011-January 2012, pp. 75 and 102, no. 2 (illustrated in color).
Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Ménage à trois. Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente, February-May 2012, pp. 186 and 249, no. 4 (illustrated in color).
Zurich, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Basquiat: Paintings and Drawings, June-September 2013.
R. D. Marshall and J.-L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1996, 1st edition, vol. 1, pp. 94-95 and 389 (illustrated in color); 2nd edition, vol. 1, pp. 118-119 and 392 (illustrated in color).
J.-L. Prat, et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 112-113, no. 4 (illustrated in color); appendix, p. 30.
G. Bria, "Jean-Michel Basquiat," Modo, June-July 2005, p. 90 (illustrated in color).
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'Jean-Michel Basquiat NYC 82 "IL DUCE"' (on the reverse)
acrylic, oilstick and spray paint on canvas
60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 1982.
