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'' Untitled (Tar Tar Tar, Lead Lead Lead)'' is a 1981 painting created by American artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat (; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti ...
in 1981. It sold for $34.8 million at
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in May 2014.


History

Executed in 1981, ''Untitled'' depicts a regal warrior surrounded by texts and graffiti imagery that marks his "transcendence from the leading figure on the underground art scene to the established world of international art stardom." The year it was created, Basquiat had his first solo exhibition at Galleria d'Arte Emilio Mazzoli and
Annina Nosei Annina Nosei (born 1939) is an Italian-born art dealer and gallerist. Nosei is best known for being Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first art dealer and providing him with studio space in the basement of her gallery. From 1981 to 2006, the Annina Nosei Ga ...
became his first art dealer. Describing his aesthetic, she said his paintings "had a quality you don't find on the walls of the street, a quality of poetry and a universal message of the sign. It was a bit immature, but very beautiful." Nosei provided Basquiat with studio space in the basement of her gallery, along with paint and canvases as he worked towards his first American solo show. Art collector Anita Reiner, saw the painting while Basquiat was working on it and purchased it on the spot. Reiner died in 2013, and the painting remained in the Reiner Family Collection until her heirs put it up for auction in 2014. It sold for $34.8 million at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in May 2014.


See also

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List of paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat The following is a list of significant artworks by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), who played a historic role in the rise of street art and neo-expressionism. During his short yet productive career, Basquiat created more t ...
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1981 in art Events from the year 1981 in art. Events * 10 September – Picasso's painting ''Guernica'' is returned from New York to Madrid. * Blek le Rat begins his stencil graffiti art in Paris. Awards * Archibald Prize: Eric Smith – '' Rudy Komon'' ...


References

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