Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).
Title: "Black".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1986. Printed 1987.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (270 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. Fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Comment(s): Scarce, rare signed, and seldom seen. No auction records located. Issued for the opening night exhibition of "Jean-Michel Basquiat: New Works" at the Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (the exhibition ran from February 7th to the 28th, 1987). Apparently there were very small quantities of this lithograph printed for distribution at the event and they went quickly. Published by the Akira Ikeda Gallery and printed by the Takada Printing Co. Image copyright © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ADAGP, Paris; ARS, New York. [29081-2-800]

Fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board