Thus, Untitled becomes a stage upon which the artist unleashes an exorcism of creativity across its surface. Sotheby’s will offer Jean-Michel Basquiat ’s Untitled (Head), 1982—an oil stick, ink, and acrylic drawing—as a highlight of its live-streamed New York contemporary evening auction on June 29. As can be witnessed in Untitled, just as Pollock embraced the physical nature of his medium to dictate much of the finished look of his dripped and poured paintings, Basquiat whole-heartedly embraced the liquid qualities of the paint to define many of the compositional aspects of his painting. Last year, Basquiat became the highest-grossing American artist at auction, generating $171.5 million from 80 works, according to Artprice, and his auction high has increased at least tenfold in the last 15 years. The artwork, which depicts a skull, is among the most expensive paintings ever purchased. He also admired the way in which the Spanish artist constructed his figures, particularly how he rejected the need to depict the subtle nuances of the human face, instead focusing only on the most powerful features. “What has propelled him so quickly,” extolled Lisa Liebmann in her Art in America review of Basquiat’s 1982 exhibition at the Annina Nosei Gallery, “is the unmistakable eloquence of his touch. Mr. Maezawa is also the founder of Japan’s large online fashion mall, Zozotown. Just like Basquiat, Pollock embraced the notion of chance in his paintings and while he carefully introduced the liquid canvas to the surface, he was prepared to let the laws and physics of gravity dictate the final path of the journey the paint would take across its surface. The eyes are listless, the face is sunken in, and the head looks lobotomized and subdued. In doing so, the third party takes on all or part of the risk of the lot not being sold. cat., Trieste, Museo Revoltella, 1999, p. LXVII).
Executed in vivacious colors over a background of complex painterly layers and bold architectonic elements, this dramatic and iconic portrait is both a forceful and an aggressive presence, whose impressive postures and dramatic features are expressive of the artist’s own fears and anxieties.
Night Sky was exhibited at a major retrospective of Celmins’ work—which often takes nature as a subject in paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints—at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last September. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992, p. 239). “But before then I wish to loan this piece — which has been unseen by the public for more than 30 years — to institutions and exhibitions around the world,” he said in a statement. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. In such cases the third party agrees prior to the auction to place an irrevocable written bid on the lot. The dichotomy between heaven and hell can also be seen in Untitled, except here the sentiment is flipped in that that the horned figure of the devil is situated in a vibrant multicolored backdrop, far removed from the menacing nature of his being.
[4] It is the first work made after 1980 to sell for more than $100 million. [7], After Yusaku Maezawa purchased the painting, he loaned it to the Brooklyn Museum and the Seattle Art Museum in 2018. Where Christie's has provided a Minimum Price Guarantee it is at risk of making a loss, which can be significant, if the lot fails to sell. NEW YORK — A 1982 artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby's auction of contemporary art Thursday night. II, exh. From Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (1982), Acrylic and oil on linen, 193 × 239 cm
The horned figure commands the composition, standing as he does with his limbs outstretched almost touching either side of the canvas. ’s Untitled (Head), 1982—an oil stick, ink, and acrylic drawing—as a highlight of its live-streamed New York contemporary evening auction on June 29. [1], Untitled was executed by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982, which is considered his most valuable year. "When I saw this painting, I was struck with so much excitement and gratitude for my love of art," said Maezawa, who plans to display it in his museum in Chiba, Japan after loaning it to institutions and exhibitions around the world. When questioned about his method of constructing an image, Basquiat would go on to confirm, “I don’t think about art when I’m working. However, for the avoidance of any doubt, if you are advised by or bidding through an agent on a lot identified as being subject to a third party guarantee you should always ask your agent to confirm whether or not he or she has a financial interest in relation to the lot. Donald Judd Sold for $23 million at Sotheby’s New York in 2014, Untitled (Yellow Tar and Feathers) is one of the Jean Michel Basquiat paintings that is considered as one of his first mature works, complex in their imagery, but also painting techniques, as it is composed of joined wood panels covered in feathers, paper collage, crayons, and his trademark acrylic. , president of Gagosian Art Advisory, which is representing the Winter family, said the collector “was drawn to art that was radical for its time and continues to be important and influential.”. Untitled
In contrast to the precise definition of the devil figure, across the rest of the canvas, Basquiat orchestrates a flurry of loose drips, daubs, and splashes of paint set amidst of expressionistic brushstrokes. https://www.barrons.com/articles/sothebys-adds-basquiats-head-drawing-to-new-york-sale-01592240595.
He admired his epic sense of scale and rapid deployment of paint onto the canvas surface. “I am happy to announce that I just won this masterpiece,” he said in the post.
The result engages the viewer with an almost hypnotic feeling of entrapment, pulling them in with the devil’s spellbinding stare. The skull here exists somewhere between life and death. Copyright ©2020 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. “There was more depth of bidding than last night,” said Morgan Long, a senior director at the Fine Art Group, an advisory company based in London. [2] It was owned by the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York, before being sold to Phoebe Chason, who sold it to Alexander F. Milliken in 1982. Taichung, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Michel Basquiat, January-June 1997, pp. Artist", "Basquiat tops Warhol after painting sells for $111 million", "$57M Basquiat Breaks Auction Record at Christie's", "Alexander F. Milliken Inc, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Wojnarowicz..., Fast, Group Exhibition Catalogue, June - July 1982", "Yusaku Maezawa's Blockbuster $110.5 Million Basquiat Is Getting Its Own Brooklyn Museum Show", "How a One-Painting Basquiat Show Lets You Get Inside the Brilliant Young Artist's Head", "$110.5 Million Basquiat Lands in New York's East Village", Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart), Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, A Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Untitled_(1982_painting)&oldid=983447028, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Acrylic, spray paint and oilstick on canvas, 183.20 cm × 173.04 cm (72.125 in × 68.125 in), This page was last edited on 14 October 2020, at 08:16. For the best Barrons.com experience, please update to a modern browser. Anon. Crowned by a pair of dramatic horns, the grinning face portrays a threatening menace. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pp. Richard Bellamy The tall, vertical figures that populate the German painter’s canvases and sculptures bear some of the same totemic formalism as Basquiat’s figures—the example in Untitled being particularly noticeable. Joining the rarefied $100 million-plus club in a salesroom punctuated by periodic gasps from the crowd, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful 1982 painting of a skull brought $110.5 million at Sotheby’s, to become the sixth most expensive work ever sold at auction. Sixty percent of the lots reached prices above their estimates. ’s Untitled (DSS 25), 1962—his first three-dimensional wall relief. A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. About This Artwork Many of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings are in some way autobiographical, and Untitled may be considered a form of self-portraiture. [3], In May 2017, the painting was auctioned at Sotheby's to Japanese businessman and art collector Yusaku Maezawa for $110.5 million, which far exceeded the pre-sale estimate of $60 million. Naples, Il Museo Civico di Castel Nuovo, Basquiat a Napoli, December 1999-March 2000, pp. 2017 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, via Sotheby's. 56-57 and cover (illustrated in color); v. II, pp. Raw, uncensored, and fiercely magnificent, Untitled from 1982 is a virtually incomparable masterwork from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s revolutionary body of paintings, executed in the very first month of the pivotal year of 1982. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, June-August 1998, pp. Although most of his body is left to Basquiat’s imagination (save for the three broad sweeps of black paint that define his ribcage); it is Basquiat’s face which displays the full force of the artist’s painterly prowess.
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