Jean-Michel Basquiat - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, June 27, 2013 | Phillips

Contemporary Art Day Sale

London 28 June 2013 2pm

  • Provenance

    Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
    Modernism, Inc., San Francisco
    Private Collection, San Francisco

  • Artist Biography

    Jean-Michel Basquiat

    American • 1960 - 1988

    One of the most famous American artists of all time, Jean-Michel Basquiat first gained notoriety as a subversive graffiti-artist and street poet in the late 1970s. Operating under the pseudonym SAMO, he emblazoned the abandoned walls of the city with his unique blend of enigmatic symbols, icons and aphorisms. A voracious autodidact, by 1980, at 22-years of age, Basquiat began to direct his extraordinary talent towards painting and drawing. His powerful works brilliantly captured the zeitgeist of the 1980s New York underground scene and catapulted Basquiat on a dizzying meteoric ascent to international stardom that would only be put to a halt by his untimely death in 1988.

    Basquiat's iconoclastic oeuvre revolves around the human figure. Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African-American and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled

1986
pencil, ink and coloured pencil on paper
47 x 44 cm. (18 1/2 x 17 3/8 in.)
Signed and dated 'Jean-Michel 1986' on the reverse. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Estimate
£90,000 - 120,000 ‡

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

London 28 June 2013 2pm