Focus on Untitled (Pollo Frito) and explore the History.
Jean-Michel Basquiat executed Untitled (Pollo Frito) in 1982, the year he fully gained legitimacy and recognition in the international art scene. He received his first American solo exhibition at the Annina Nosei Galley in New York, followed by the Larry Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and Bruno Bischofberger's gallery in Zurich. He also received an invitation to attend the Documenta 7 exhibition in Kassel as the youngest artist to participate.In 1982, Fay Gold, an art dealer from Atlanta, spotted Untitled (Pollo Frito) at the Annina Nosei Gallery during a trip to New York City. She had intended to buy a diamond bracelet with the $5,000 her husband gave her for her birthday, instead she bought the painting. In 1985, Gold went to Basquiat's Great Jones Street studio and invited him to do a show at her gallery. He sold her a group of eleven drawings for $16,500 and later traveled to Atlanta for the opening at the Fay Gold Gallery in February 1986.In 2002, Gold sold Untitled (Pollo Frito) for around $1 million. It sold for $25.7 million at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction in November 2018.The painting debuted on the art-investment platform, Masterworks in July 2023. According to SEC documents the painting was worth of $36,869,000.
Bruno Bischofberger Great Jones Street Annina Nosei Galley Jean-Michel Basquiat Larry Gagosian Larry Gagosian Gallery Sotheby's Annina Nosei