Cabeza
Unsigned Print

Name: Cabeza
Brand: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Rating: 5 (234 reviews)

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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2005 screen print in colours, on Saunders Hot Press watercolour paper. S. 139 x 100.8 cm (54 3/4 x 39 5/8 in.). Numbered in an edition of 85, signed and dated by the Administrator of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat

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The value of Jean-Michel Basquiat's Cabeza (unsigned) is estimated to be worth between £60,000 and £100,000. This screenprint, created in 2004, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £47,707, across 2 total sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £43,145 in March 2024 to £84,033 in October 2022. Since its initial sale in November 2007, this artwork has been sold 20 times at auction. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 85.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
April 2024	Christie's New York	United States
March 2024	Christie's New York	United States
November 2023	Phillips London	United Kingdom
October 2023	Christie's New York	United States
September 2023	Sotheby's London	United Kingdom
April 2023	Sotheby's New York	United States
October 2022	Larsen Gallery	United States

Meaning & Analysis

Cabeza is a screen print in colours produced in 2004 by Jean-Michel Basquiat. This print depicts a portrait of a single figure against a vibrant yellow-orange backdrop. As in other pieces depicting bodies and faces, such as Head, there is a simultaneous depiction of the internal and external body, with a rib cage and an ambiguous organ drawn in white lines. A word of unknown meaning - Aopkhes - is written across the figure’s chest. A circle drawn onto the figure’s neck suggests an Adam's apple. As in many of Basquiat’s portraits, the figure bears a startled or shocked facial expression.

In its title, Cabeza recalls the iconic Dos Cabezas, a painting by the artist that depicts Basquiat alongside Andy Warhol. The piece can be seen as emblematic of the close working relationship and friendship which the two artists cultivated in the early 80s. It proved beneficial for Basquiat to be connected to such a highly-regarded figure in the New York art scene, yet the working friendship was not one-sided commercially, as Warhol also benefited from association with the up-and-coming neo-expressionist as his pop art prints and paintings everyday items began to lose favour with the art-buying audience.

Jean-Michel Basquiat's unique visual style has dominated the Urban Art scene, securing his status as one of the most successful African-American street artists of the 20th Century. Addressing themes of race, identity and culture within his expressive works, his distinctive painterly style and use of child-like iconography changed the course of art history forever. Artworks such as Undiscovered Genius place controversial subjects at the forefront of his narrative. Despite his tragically premature death at the age of 27, Basquiat's impact on the art scene is exemplified through the increase of his market value in the years since.

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