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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled (Caucasian / Negro)

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November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1960 - 1988


Untitled (Caucasian / Negro)

oil stick, graphite and colored pencil on paper

30 by 22¼ in.

76.2 by 56.6 cm.

Executed in 1985. 

Estate of the artist
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1990 by the present owner
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Drawings, November 1990, p. 133, illustrated in color
New York, Cheim & Read, I Am The Walrus, June - July 2004
New York, Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of Replica Handbags s Houston, Basquiat, March 2005 - February 2006, p. 145, illustrated in color
Santander, Fundación Marcelino Botín and Rome, Fondazione Memmo, Jean-Michel Basquiat: To Repel Ghosts, June 2008 - February 2009, pp. 108-109, illustrated in color
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Arts, Miro/Dubuffet/Basquiat, March - May 2010
Buenos Aires, Malba - Fundación Costantini, Bye Bye American Pie, March - June 2012, no. 7, p. 114, illustrated in color
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time, February - May 2015, p. 85, illustrated in color
Provence, Château La Coste, Basquiat, August - October 2019, pp. 88-89, illustrated in color
Paris, Galerie Gradiva, Résonance: Jean-Michel Basquiat & L'Univers Kongo, September - November 2022, p. 162, illustrated in color
Enrique Hauser, "Basquiat's Madonna Litta," Achademia Leonardi Vinci: Journal of Leonardo's studies & Bibliography of Vinciana, Vol. 4, 1991, pl. 133, pp. 263, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 1992 - January 1994, p. 22, illustrated
Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on paper, Paris, 1999, pp. 318-319, illustrated in color