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Jean-Michel Basquiat
CABRA, 1981
10yr Price history
$15,669,385
$****** - ******
Jean-Michel Basquiat
CABRA
10yr Price history
$15,669,385
$****** - ******
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 16, 2017
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art Evening Auction32
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CABRA
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

153 x 153 cm (60.24 x 60.24 in)

Materials

acrylic and oilstick on canvas

Signature

signed, titled and dated 81-82 on the reverse

Provenance

Collection of Tony Shafrazi, New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1993

Exhibited

New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Champions, January - February 1983, p. 18, illustrated

Acireale, Palazzo di Città; Rome, Regione Lazio, Centro Culturale Cembalo Borghese, Palazzo Borghese; Comune di Ferrara, Gallerie Civiche d'Arte Moderna, Palazzo del Diamanti; and Malo, Museo laboratorio Casabianca, La Scuola di Atene: il sisteme dell'arte, December 1983 - April 1984, p. 26, illustrated

Basel, Fondation Beyeler; and Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Basquiat, May 2010 - January 2011, p. 46, no. 32, illustrated in color and pp. 34-35, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982) (Basel); pp. 38-39, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982) (Paris)

Literature

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and travelling), Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1992, p. 239, illustrated (in the artist's studio, 1982)

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1st Ed., Vol II, Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1996, p. 56, no. 1, illustrated in color and p. 124, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982)

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2nd Ed., Vol II, Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1996, p. 58, no. 1, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, 1997, p. 158, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Témoignage 1977-1988, 1998, p. 38,  illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982)

Tony Shafrazi, Jeffrey Deitch, Richard D. Marshall, et al., Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999, p. 80, illustrated in color

Richard D. Marshall, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper, Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1999, p. 352, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982) 

Exh. Cat., Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Basquiat a Venezia, 1999, p. 126, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982) 

Exh. Cat., Naples, Museo Civico Castel Nuovo, Basquiat a Napoli, 1999, p. 134, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982) 

Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., Vol. II, Enrico Navarra, Paris, 2000, p. 84, no. 1, illustrated in color and p. 276, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982)

Exh. Cat., New York, Van de Weghe Fine Art, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Works on Paper, 2007, p. 208, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio, 1982)

Description

signed, titled and dated 81-82 on the reverse

acrylic and oilstick on canvas

60 1/4 by 60 1/4 in. 153 by 153 cm.

CABRA by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

CABRA, 1981

Acrylic and oilstick on canvas
153 x 153 cm (60.24 x 60.24 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
LiveArt Estimate™
$******
Momentum 12M
5.9%
CAGR
**%
Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (16 Nov 2017)
$******
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