Basquiat’s 'In This Case', a Head Above the Rest | Christie's

The last of the artist’s three monumentally sized paintings of the human skull headlines the inaugural 21st Century Evening Sale at Christie’s New York.

No subject is more powerful or more sought after in the oeuvre of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) than the singular skull. For the enigmatic artist, the human head was more than an obsession. As the punning title of In This Case (1983) implies, the head is a case or a cage for a cog-like machine teeming with impulses and ideas.

‘In This Case is one of only three monumentally sized skulls that Basquiat painted,’ explains Alex Rotter, Chairman of 20th and 21st Century Art. ‘The impressive size of these heads rival the height of a fully grown man himself. The painterly intensity and immediacy present in this work is unparalleled in Basquiat’s oeuvre.’

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