Natives Carrying Things
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat

Natives Carrying Things

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Natives Carrying Things, 1983

acrylic and oil stick on canvas
84 x 84 inches
Signed, titled and dated "Jean Michel Basquiat Natives Carrying Things/83" on the reverse

Provenance
Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, November 16, 1995, Lot 100
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, October 3, 2019, Lot 15

Literature
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vol. I, Paris 1996, p. 204, illustrated in colour
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vol. I, Paris 2000, p. 199, illustrated in colour
Richard D. Marshall and Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vol. II, Paris 2000, p. 157, no. 6, illustrated in colour
Enrico Navarra, ed., Jean-Michel Basquiat: Appendix, Paris 2010, p. 33 (text)
Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, Eds., Basquiat: Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), Munich 2015, p. 60, illustrated in colour

Exhibitions
Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts; Taichung, Taichung Museum, Jean-Michel Basquiat, January - June 1997, p. 61, illustrated in colour
Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum Marugame, M.I.M.O.C.A., Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 1997 - April 1998, p. 61, illustrated in colour
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2004, p. 49, illustrated
Bali, Darga Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2005, p. 25, illustrated
New York, Nahmad Contemporary, Words Are All We Have: Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, May - June 2016, pp. 106-107, illustrated in colour (in installation), p. 115, illustrated in colour, and pp. 124-25, illustrated in colour (detail)

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