Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (ELMAR)

signed "Jean-Michel Basquiat" on the reverse
acrylic, oilstick, spray paint and Xerox collage on canvas
68 x 93 1/8 in. (172.7 x 236.5 cm)
Executed in 1982.

Provenance

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Elaine Dannheisser (acquired from the above)
Francesco Pellizzi, New York (acquired from the above via Annina Nosei Gallery in 1984)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Hempstead, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University; Bethlehem, Lehigh University Art Galleries, 1979–1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, April 16–November 2, 1989, no. 4, pp. 6, 19, 58 (illustrated, p. 19)
Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings and Drawings 1980-1988, February 12–March 14, 1998, no. 13, n.p. (illustrated; detail illustrated on the front and back cover)
Houston, The Menil Collection, 17 Contemporaries: Artists from America, Italy, and Mexico - the Eighties, June 11–August 15, 1999, n.p.
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, February 7–April 6, 2013, pp. 88-89, 203 (illustrated)
Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 3, 2018–January 4, 2019, no. 66, pp. 181-183 (illustrated, pp. 182-183)

Literature

Ted Castle, “Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Artistes Revue bimestrielle d’art contemporain, no. 14, January-February 1983, p. 29 (illustrated)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 1996, no. 3, pp. 90-91 (illustrated, p. 90)
Tony Shafrazi, Jeffrey Deitch and Richard D. Marshall, eds., Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999, p. 129 (illustrated)
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, vol. II, Paris, 2000, no. 3, pp. 138-139 (illustrated, p. 138)
Léa Di Michele, “La Fondation Louis Vuitton Rend Hommage à Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Femmes Magazine, February 8, 2018, online (illustrated)
Hans Werner Holzwarth, Benedikt Taschen and Eleanor Nairne, eds., Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling, Cologne, 2018, pp. 138-139, 494 (illustrated, pp. 138-139)
Nazanin Lankarani, “Egon Schiele & Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Gagosian Quarterly, Spring 2019, p. 76
Dieter Buchhart, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat: Xerox, Berlin, 2019, fig. 9, pp. 18, 21 (illustrated, p. 21)