
Andrew Huber
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US$60,000 - US$100,000
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Provenance
Verj Baghooman Gallery, New York
Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Verj Baghooman Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 21 October-25 November 1989, no. 37, n.p., illustrated in color
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny, Musée Maillol, Jean-Michel Basquiat: oeuvres sur papier, 1997, p. 25, illustrated in color
Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Temoignage 1977-1988, 1998, pp. 10-11, illustrated in color
From an early age, Jean-Michel Basquiat showed a penchant for drawing, often using the paper that his father brought home from his accounting job to make sketches inspired by television cartoons, Alfred Hitchock movies, and comic books. Portrait of Allison Pantosh perfectly captures a moment in time for thethen teenage Basquiat. Seventeen years old, wielding and ink pen and sketch pad, and sketching his friends, the interest in creating art at all times, whether on paper or in the streets as SAMO, is clear.
Both Cop Guy and Portrait of Allison Pantosh boast exceptional exhibition history. Each work was, in tandem, exhibited at Verj Baghooman Gallery in New York, 1989, at the Fondation Dina Vierny in Paris, 1997, and at Galerie Jerome de Noirmont in Paris, 1998. This offering represents a rare opportunity to acquire a piece of the artist's finite leger of drawings, a part of a body of work that has become defining to the 20th century art historical canon.