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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988) DOS CABEZAS II acrylic and oil-stick on canvas 84 x 84 in. (213....

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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988) DOS CABEZAS II acrylic and oil-stick on canvas 84 x 84 in. (213....
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
(1960-1988)
DOS CABEZAS II
acrylic and oil-stick on canvas
84 x 84 in. (213.4 x 213.4 cm)
executed in 1983 <p>PROVENANCE
Gagosian Gallery, LOS ANGELES
Private collection, EUROPE <p>EXHIBITED
LOS ANGELES, Gagosian Gallery, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: NEW PAINTINGS, March 8-April 2, 1983
NEW YORK, Vrej Baghoomian Inc., JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, October 21-November 25, 1989, no. 17
NEW YORK, Whitney Museum of American Art; HOUSTON, Menil Collection; Des Moines Art Center and ALABAMA, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, October 23, 1992-January 9, 1994, p. 178 <p>LITERATURE
G. Pfeffer, ed., JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, Galerie Enrico Navarran, PARIS, 1996, pp. 98-99, pl. 7 and pp. 236-237 (illustrated; installation view at Gagosian Gallery, 1983)
The colors are not those of easel painting, obtained while learning a craft and constantly worked on. They are lively, swift colors of the street, both vibrant and faded, affixed and opposing, distant but not foreign...
Jean Louis Prat, "The Child King of the Eighties," JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1996, p.13