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Untitled (Devil's head)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988) · 1987
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $3,000,000 – $5,000,000 (≈ £2,413,904 – £4,023,173) (≈ €2,803,214 – €4,672,024)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
- Medium
- Acrylic · Paintings all acrylic results →As published: “acrylic on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Initialed and dated "JMB '87" on the overlap · Jean-Michel Basquiat signature
- Category
- Acrylic paintings
- Dimensions
- 48 x 40 in. (121.9 x 101.6 cm.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale (NY010716)
- Date
- November 16, 2016
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 24
- Estimate
- $3,000,000 – $5,000,000 (≈ £2,413,904 – £4,023,173) (≈ €2,803,214 – €4,672,024)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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