Friday, July 1, 2011

AUCTION: Jean-Michel Basquiat / Self Portrait / Phillips de Pury & Company (London) / June 27, 2011


JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
Self-Portrait, 1985
Acrylic, oil stick, crown cork and bottle caps on wood.  
142 × 153 × 15 cm (55 7/8 × 60 1/4 × 5 7/8 in). 
ESTIMATED VALUE: £2,000,000-3,000,000
SOLD FOR: £2,057,250 or $3,246,690.00 USD

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, London

EXHIBITED: Fire Under the Ashes (from Picasso to Basquiat): Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, 5 May – 28 August 2005; Paris, Musée Maillol-Fondation Dina Vierny, 8 October 2005 – 14 February 2006

LITERATURE: E. Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2000, vol. II, no. 10, p. 230 (illustrated in colour)

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