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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 106 | $****** - ****** | Plush Safe He Think | |||
Jun 30, 2016 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction | 139 | $****** - ****** | Untitled (Plush Safe He Think) | |||
Jun 29, 1999 | Christie's | London | Contemporary Art | 73 | $****** - ****** | Plush safe he think | |||
Feb 19, 1988 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art. Sale No. 5688 | 115 | Estimates not disclosed | Plush safe - he think |
paintings
69.8 x 68 cm (27.5 x 26.75 in)
acrylic and oilstick on board
Collection of Diego Cortez, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 19 February 1988, Lot 115
Private Collection
Christie's, London, 29 June 1999, Lot 73
Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
Collection of Johnny Depp, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 2003)
Christie's, London, 30 June 2016, Lot 139
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Queens, MoMA PS1, New York/New Wave, February - April 1981Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, Jean-Michel Basquiat Dipinti, 2002, p. 65, illustrated in colorLondon, Barbican Art Gallery; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Basquiat: Boom for Real, September 2017 - May 2018, pp. 52 (text), 66, 74 and 93, illustrated in color
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 3rd Ed., Vol. II, Paris, 2000, p. 72, no. 8, illustrated in color
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