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Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 05:00 pm

Jean-Michel Basquiat, View of Base of Skull, from "Anatomy", 1982

Lot 207

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1960-1988 (US)

View of Base of Skull, from "Anatomy", 1982

Lithograph.
H 765 mm W 565 mm.

(Frame). Signed.

*CHF7'000 / 12'000
*EUR6'000 / 10'000
*USD7'500 / 13'000

Hammer Price: CHF 8'000

Annotation:

Verso numbered : AP V/6.
Mounted on backing paper.
Margins browned. Verso strongly browned.
Literature: Michel Enrici. J.M. Basquiat.
Paris, Classics of Twentieth Century, 1989. (Page 149);
Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, October 1992 - August 1993 (illustration page 240, illustration of a different copy;
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Works in Black and White. Exhibition catalogue. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1994;
T. Kawachi. King for a Decade. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Japan 1997. (Pages 67-71);
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Works on Paper. Exhibition catalogue. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1997. (Pages 97-99).