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Back Of The Neck - Signed Print by Jean-Michel Basquiat 1983 - MyArtBroker

Back Of The Neck
Signed Print

Jean-Michel Basquiat

£370,000-£560,000Value Indicator

$730,000-$1,110,000 Value Indicator

$660,000-$1,000,000 Value Indicator

¥3,400,000-¥5,140,000 Value Indicator

450,000-680,000 Value Indicator

$3,630,000-$5,490,000 Value Indicator

¥70,830,000-¥107,200,000 Value Indicator

$470,000-$710,000 Value Indicator

-1% AAGR

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Screen print in colors with hand-coloring, on Stonehenge heavyweight paper. S. 127.8 x 258.3 cm (50 3/8 x 101 3/4 in.). Signed and dated 1983, and numbered in an edition of 24.

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The value of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Back Of The Neck (signed) is estimated to be worth between £370,000 and £560,000. This screenprint, created in 1983, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale in November 2004. This work is part of a limited edition of 24 and has an auction history of 18 total sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £190,945 in February 2024 to £762,675 in November 2023, with an average annual growth rate of -1%.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
February 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
November 2023Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers United States
March 2021Sotheby's London United Kingdom
October 2020Phillips London United Kingdom
October 2017Christie's London United Kingdom
December 2016Artcurial France
November 2016Sotheby's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Back Of The Neck features a particularly ironic use of the copyright sign, heightening Basquiat’s always subversive use of the symbol. On this subject, Leonard Emmerling notes: “Far more ambiguous than the crown is the copyright sign, which in its direct function touches upon ownership and the valuation thereof. Painted on the walls of other people’s buildings, it not only demonstrated SAMO’s authorship but generally questioned the idea of legality itself, like all sprayed tags turning anonymity into an open profession and claiming a formal legal protection for an activity that in reality remained illegal”.

There is perhaps nothing more ludicrous than a copyright sign attached to the human form itself. Less humorous, however, is the suggestion of a dehumanised, commodified body implied by the imposition of the copyright sign in this context.

  • 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.