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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Fats II, 1987
10yr Price history
$8,233,231
$****** - ******
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Fats II
10yr Price history
$8,233,231
$****** - ******
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 18, 2017
Christie'sNew YorkPost-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale2B
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Fats II
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

285.1 x 163.2 cm (112.25 x 64.25 in)

Materials

acrylic and oilstick on canvas

Signature

signed, titled and dated '87 Jean-Michel Basquiat "FATS II"' (on the reverse)

Provenance

Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

Private collection, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Düsseldorf, Galerie Hans Mayer, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Neue Arbeiten, January-March 1988, n.p. (illustrated).

New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, April-June 1998.

New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October-November 1999, p. 269 (illustrated in color and on the exhibition announcement).

Dublin, The Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery, Now’s the Time, November 2008- February 2009, pp. 28-29 and 62 (illustrated in color).

Literature

J.-L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 150-151, no. 8 (illustrated in color).

P. Hoban, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, 1998, New York, n.p. (studio view illustrated).

Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., Trieste, Museo Revoltella, 1999, p. 190 (studio view illustrated in color).

J.-L. Prat, et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 23 and 260-261, no. 3 (illustrated in color and studio view illustrated in color).

L. Emmerling, Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1960-1988, Cologne, 2003, p. 95 (studio view illustrated in color).

The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show, exh. cat., Milan, Fondazione La Triennale de Milano, 2006, p. 18 (studio view illustrated in color).

Basquiat, exh. cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2010, p. 174 (studio view illustrated in color).

Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing: Works from the Schorr Family Collection, exh. cat., New York, Acquavella Galleries, 2014, p. 192 (studio view illustrated in color).

Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, exh. cat., New York, Brooklyn Museum, 2015, p. 203, pl. 201 (illustrated in color).

Words Are All We Have: Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat., New York, Nahmad Contemporary, 2016, pp. 4 and 99, fig. 4 (illustrated in color and studio view illustrated in color).

Description

signed, titled and dated '87 Jean-Michel Basquiat "FATS II"' (on the reverse)

acrylic and oilstick on canvas

112 1/4 x 64 1/4 in. (285 x 163.3 cm.)

Painted in 1987.

Fats II by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Fats II, 1987

Acrylic and oilstick on canvas
285.1 x 163.2 cm (112.25 x 64.25 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
LiveArt Estimate™
$******
Momentum 12M
4.7%
CAGR
**%
Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (18 May 2017)
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