Fine Art · Florida, USA

Jean-Michel Basquiat — Bad Foot, 1985–87

Oil stick, coloured pencil & Xerox collage on paper · 81.3 × 61 cm

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Iconic primate figure · 81.3 × 61 cm
Oil stick, coloured pencil & Xerox collage
Numbered in the Annina Nosei Archive
Christie's / Phillips provenance

Bad Foot (1985–87) centres on one of Basquiat's totemic primate figures, arm raised amid a scatter of collage, oil stick and coloured-pencil marginalia — a characteristic collision of anatomy, heraldry and private code.

Signed with the artist's initials and dated on the reverse "JMB 85-87", and numbered 1904 A-C in the Annina Nosei Archive.

Provenance — Annina Nosei Gallery, New York · Phillips, New York, 10 November 2015 · Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills · Private Collection, Texas · Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale, May 2021, lot 228 · Private Collection, Florida

Artist

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Work

Bad Foot

Year

1985–87

Medium

Oil stick, coloured pencil & Xerox collage on paper

Dimensions

32 × 24 in · 81.3 × 61 cm

Inscribed

Initialled & dated "JMB 85-87" on the reverse

Reference

Annina Nosei Archive 1904 A-C

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