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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

£850,000-£1,280,000 Value Indicator

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$1,030,000-$1,540,000 Value Indicator

23% AAGR (5YR)

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Screenprint, 1983
Signed Print Edition of 24
H 127cm x W 257cm

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
March 2021Sotheby's London - United KingdomBack Of The Neck - Signed Print
October 2020Phillips London - United KingdomBack Of The Neck - Signed Print
October 2017Christie's London - United KingdomBack Of The Neck - Signed Print
December 2016Artcurial - FranceBack Of The Neck - Signed Print
November 2016Sotheby's New York - United StatesBack Of The Neck - Signed Print
April 2015Phillips New York - United StatesBack Of The Neck - Signed Print
January 2015Phillips London - United KingdomBack Of The Neck - Signed Print

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.

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