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Jean-Michel Basquiat, In This Case From, Christie’s marquee spring sales were also witnessed to the second-highest result of the year, when Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983 masterwork, In This Case, fetched $93.1 million at the auction house’s 21st-century evening sale. In This Case is the last of Basquiat’s iconic trinity of “Skull” paintings, which he produced between 1981 and 1983. The only other “Skull” painting to come to auction, 1982’s Untitled, sold for more than $110 million in 2017—a result that still holds as Basquiat’s auction record and as the most expensive work by an American artist at auction. In This Case, didn’t quite reach those heights, but its combination of rich reds, signature symbology, and, of course, the iconic skull motif was enough to push it past all previous paintings offered by the artist.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, In This Case From, Christie’s marquee spring sales were also witnessed to the second-highest result of the year, when Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983 masterwork, In This Case, fetched $93.1 million at the auction house’s 21st-century evening sale. In This Case is the last of Basquiat’s iconic trinity of “Skull” paintings, which he produced between 1981 and 1983. The only other “Skull” painting to come to auction, 1982’s Untitled, sold for more than $110 million in 2017—a result that still holds as Basquiat’s auction record and as the most expensive work by an American artist at auction. In This Case, didn’t quite reach those heights, but its combination of rich reds, signature symbology, and, of course, the iconic skull motif was enough to push it past all previous paintings offered by the artist.