Famous Negro Athletes | Yale University Art Gallery

1981

Medium: Oilstick on paper
Dimensions: sheet: 23 1/8 × 35 in. (58.7 × 88.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Nelly Bly, B.A. 1994, and Michael Arougheti, B.A. 1993
Accession Number: 2023.94.1
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Drawings
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

The artist, New York; given to Glenn O’Brien (1947–2017), New York, 1981 [see note 1]; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Thursday, November 14, 2019, lot 5; sold to Nelly Bly-Arougheti and Michael Arougheti, New York, November 14, 2019; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2023

Note 1: Glenn O’Brien was a legendary art critic and luminary in the SoHo art scene of the 1970s–80s. An early promoter and lifelong friend of the artist, Basquiat made the drawing for O’Brien. For more on the artist’s gift to O’Brien and O’Brien’s relationship with the artist, see: Exh. Cat., Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time, 2015, p. 175 and Exh. Cat., New York, Deitch Projects, Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street, May 2006

Bibliography

Dieter Buchhart and Trisha Laughlin Bloom, Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
, exh. cat. (New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2015), 35, 109, no. 45, fig. 14

Fred Hoffman, Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing : Work from the Schorr Family Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 2014), 91, ill

Dieter Buchhart and Sam Keller, eds., Basquiat, exh. cat. (Basel: Fondation Beyeler - Riehen/Basel, 2010), 30, no. 20

Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art Evening Auction, sale cat. (November 14, 2009), no. Lot 00005, ill

Glenn O'Brien and Diego Cortez, Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981: the Studio of the Street (New York: Deitch Projects, New York, ca. 2007), 18–19, 131, no. 15

Gianni Mercurio, ed., The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2006), 131, no. 15

Jean-Luc Chalumeau, Basquiat : 1960-1988 (Paris: Cercle d'Art, ca. 2003), n.p., no. 7

Galerie Enrico Navarra, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat: Works on Paper (Paris: Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1999), 105, ill

Taka Kawakchi, ed., King for a Decade: Jean-Michel Basquiat (Kyoto: Kornisha Press, 1997), 26–27, ill

Vrej Baghoomian, Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat. (New York: Vrej Baghoomian, Inc., 1988), 113, no. 48

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