JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT — Untitled, 1981 / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Paris Musées, 2010

Exhibition postcard, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981. Published by Paris Musées for Basquiat, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 15 October 2010–30 January 2011. Offset-printed colour on card stock, 15 × 10.5 cm. Colour image to recto; exhibition and copyright details to verso. Reproduces Untitled, 1981, acrylique et pastel gras sur toile, 106 × 176 cm. Collection Eli et Edythe L. Broad, Los Angeles. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studios, Los Angeles. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / Adagp, Paris 2010. MAM 119.

A small institutional object from the 2010 Paris retrospective, a major posthumous staging of Basquiat’s work in France. The card carries one of the artist’s key early head images, reducing a major 1981 canvas into a portable museum-shop format: image, caption, collection, copyright, exhibition dates.

Within The New Rare register, this is not a rare Basquiat object in the strict market sense. Its interest is as a surviving exhibition support from a specific institutional moment: Paris Musées, 2010, the Broad collection image, and the afterlife of Basquiat’s work through reproduction and museum circulation.

Condition: Good. Light handling wear, minor surface marks and age toning visible to verso. Unposted. Ships flat in protective packaging; UK and international shipping available.