Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988). Title: "Piscine Versus the Best Hotels". Medium: Color offset lithograph. Date: Composed 1982. Printed 1984. Dimensions: Overall size: 7 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (181 x 210 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed very small. Very light cream wove paper. Wide margins. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition. Comment(s): Scarce, rare signed, and seldom seen. No auction records located. Issued for the opening night exhibition of "Jean Michel Basquiat – Paintings, 1981-1984" at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (the exhibition ran from August 11th to September 23rd, 1984). Apparently there were very small quantities of this lithograph printed for distribution at the event and they went quickly. Published by The Fruitmarket Gallery. Printed in the Netherlands by Lecturis bv. This work was titled "The Hotel and the Piscine" at the exhibition. Image copyright © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ADAGP, Paris; ARS, New York. [28983-2-600] |