This poster showcard is from Sotheby's inaugural exhibition at their new Breuer Building location. The poster is delivered folded and includes a transparent sleeve, featuring the artist from Downtown 81 walking down Fifth Avenue, New York, in 1981. Photo © Edo Bertoglio.

with its full dimensions being 45cm x 46cm.

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Crowns (Peso Neto), a rare and electrifying masterwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat, will form the centerpiece of Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction this November when it is offered with an estimate of $35-45 million. Painted in 1981, the pivotal year that launched Basquiat onto the international stage, the work sees the artist develop and concretize the lexicon of symbols that would define his life and work, from tallies to halos to crowns. The raw canvas elements speak to a critical moment in which Basquiat transitions from the street to the studio on the dawn of explosive stardom.

Offered at auction for the very first time, Crowns (Peso Neto) was unveiled as part of Basquiat’s landmark eponymous solo presentation at Annina Nosei Gallery in March 1982, and the following summer at documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, where he was among the youngest artists ever invited to participate in one of the most prestigious events on the contemporary art calendar. Its appearance at Sotheby’s comes at another historic juncture: the inauguration of its new global headquarters in the iconic Breuer building—formerly the site of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which organized the first Basquiat retrospective in 1992.

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