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Sotheby’s Unveils £14m Basquiat for London

February 20, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Lot 13, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (One eyed man or xerox face)With a little more than two weeks to go until their Contemporary Evening sale in London, Sotheby’s drops a Jean-Michel Basquiat work along with the catalogue:

Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 8 March will be led by Untitled (One Eyed Man or Xerox Face), one of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s finest full-length male figures from his series of grand-scale paintings that took the art world by storm in the early 1980s.

Now estimated at £14-18 million, Untitled (One Eyed Man or Xerox Face) last appeared at auction in 1987, the year before the artist’s death, when it sold for $23,100. This was among the highest prices ever paid for the artist at the time.

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