Lot #271: JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT - Jean-Michel Basquiat at Boone & Werner - Two-color embossing on cardstock paper

 

Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).
Title: "Jean-Michel Basquiat at Boone & Werner [exhibition announcement]".
Medium: Two-color embossing on cardstock paper.
Date: Composed 1985. Printed 1985.
Dimensions: Overall size: 5 x 7 in. (127 x 178 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $1,600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $2,000/2,500
Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, center left. Edition size unspecified, presumed very small. Printed on heavy woven textured paper in two colors, gold and silver. Full margins. Fine impression. Fine condition.
Comment(s): Very scarce, rare signed, and seldom seen. No auction records located. We found two dealer examples online in May, 2024: a signed impression offered at $3,325 by bent priorities, Thessaloniki, Greece, and an unsigned one offered at $800 by Lot 180 Gallery New York, N.Y., N.Y. This announcement card was issued for the exhibition 'Jean-Michel Basquiat' held from March 2 to March 23, 1985, at the Mary Boone and Michael Werner Gallery, 417 West Broadway, New York. This was Basquiat’s second solo exhibition at the Gallery. Having already exhibited with Gagosian, Annina Nosei, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, and Marlborough Gallery, Basquiat had become very well-known and his collaboration with Boone further advanced both his notoriety and his top-level prices in the booming 1980s New York art market. Image copyright © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ADAGP, Paris; ARS, New York. [30703-1-1600-NA]