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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 26, 2025 | Phillips | London | Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale | 9 | $****** - ****** | MP | |||
Dec 7, 2011 | Sotheby's | Paris | Art Contemporain | 7 | $****** - ****** | MP | |||
Nov 8, 2010 | Phillips | New York | Part I Contemporary Art | 121 | $****** - ****** | MP | |||
Nov 11, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 63 | $****** - ****** | MP |
paintings
218.5 x 172.8 cm (86.02 x 68.03 in)
acrylic and Xerox collage on canvas
signed, titled and dated "\\\"MP\\\" 1984 Basquiat" on the reverse
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1985)
Sotheby"s, Paris, 7 December 2011, lot 7
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Richard D. Marshall, Enrico Navarra and Jean-Louis Prat, emJean-Michel Basquiat/em, vol. II, Paris, 1996, pp. 136-137 (illustrated, p. 136)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, emJean-Michel Basquiat/em, vol. III, Paris, 2000, pp. 220-221 (illustrated, p. 220)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
MP
218.5 x 172.8 cm (86 x 68 in.)
signed, titled and dated "\\\"MP\\\" 1984 Basquiat" on the reverse
acrylic and Xerox collage on canvas
Executed in 1984.
