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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Origin of Cotton), 1981
10yr Price history
$103,839
$****** - ******
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Origin of Cotton)
10yr Price history
$103,839
$****** - ******
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 17, 2013
PhillipsNew YorkContemporary Art Day Sale145
$****** - ******
Excellent
Untitled (Origin of Cotton)
Artwork Description
Category

Works on Paper

Dimensions

61 x 45.1 cm (24 x 17.75 in)

Materials

oil stick on paper

Signature

Signed and dated "81 Jean-Michel Basquiat" on the reverse

Provenance

Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

Twiga Collection, New York

Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco

Private Collection

Exhibited

Clinton, NY, Fred Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Collection Peter Brams , December 12, 1986 - January 25, 1987, then traveled to Exeter, NH, Lamont Gallery, Phillips - Exeter Academy (February 13 - March 16, 1987)

Miami, Fl, Wolfson Galleries, Miami - Dade Community College, Two Cents , October 20, 1995 - January 14, 1996, then traveled to Buffalo, NY, Castellani Art Museum, Niagra University (February - March 1996), Memphis, TN, University of Memphis (April - May 1996), Tampa, FL, University of South Florida Art Museum, (July - August 1996), Los Angeles, CA, Otis Gallery, Otis Parsons College of Art and Design, (September - October 1996), Austin, TX , Austin Museum of Art (November - January 1997)

Tokyo, Parco Gallery, King for a Decade - Jean-Michel Basquiat , July 9 - September 3, 1997

Osaka, Japan, Big Step Inc., Jean-Michel Basquiat - Works on Paper , October, 1997

Literature

D. Cortez, P. Brams, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Collection Peter Brams : Jean Michel Basquiat, Gilbert & George, Milan Kunc, David McDermott & Peter McGough, Philip Taaffe, Rosemarie Trockel , New York: The Gallery, 1986

J.M. Basquiat, K. Young, Miami-Dade Community College, Two Cents , Wolfson Galleries, Miami: The Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, 1995

T. Kawachi, ed., King for a Decade: Jean-Michel Basquiat , Kyoto: Korinsha Press, 1997

Description

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled (Origin of Cotton)

oil stick on paper

24 x 17 3/4 in. (61 x 45.1 cm.)

Signed and dated "81 Jean-Michel Basquiat" on the reverse. This work is registered in the archives of the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Untitled (Origin of Cotton) by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled (Origin of Cotton), 1981

Oil stick on paper
61 x 45.1 cm (24 x 17.75 in)
Works on Paper
Unique artwork
LiveArt Estimate™
$******
Momentum 12M
7.0%
CAGR
**%
Last recorded sale at Phillips, New York (17 May 2013)
$******
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