Select Fine Artworks From Private Collections
Feb 3, 2021
1243 Pond Street, Franklin. MA 02038, United States
Terms of sale
View demo
The auction has ended
|
LOT 9:
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, Attributed: FACE W/ HALO OF THORNS
more...
|
|
|
Start price:
$
10,000
Estimated price:
$60,000 - $80,000
Auction house commission: 35%
More details
sales tax: 6.35% On lot's price, no sales tax on commission
|
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, Attributed: FACE W/ HALO OF THORNS
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988) Attributed: Face with Halo of thorns. Oil on canvas, signed on back and marked 82 , framed. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced. Basquiat is considered a contributor to the neo-expressionist movement, a late-modernist style of art characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials. Basquiat used his paintings as a means of social commentary/criticism, often making attacks on power structures and systems of racism and focusing on dichotomies like wealth vs. poverty, integration vs. segregation and inner vs. outer experience.
The Basquiat Foundation no longer reviews paintings for authenticity. This painting is an original composition. It has no paperwork to support its authenticity.
