Jean-Michel Basquiat Crown and Car drawing on FAST exhibition catalog, 1982 (considered Basquiat's most valuable year)

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Jean-Michel Basquiat 'Crown and Car' drawing. Blue, black and green coloured pencil drawing on the front cover of 'Fast', an exhibition catalogue for a show held from June 11 - July 1982 at Alexander Milliken Inc, New York. 

Coloured pencil   10 × 9 1/10 × 1/5 in | 25.5 × 23 × 0.5 cm  

Hand-signed by artist,

Full name signature along the bottom

Box framed with art glass

Includes the whole book. Given by Basquiat as a gift and originally owned by prominent activist and collector Bruce B. Decker. 

Bruce B. Decker (1950-1995), a Republican political consultant and public policy advocate, dedicated himself to AIDS research, education and treatment programs after learning he was HIV-positive in 1984. That same year, Decker helped found Concerned Americans for Individual Rights, a national organization of moderate and conservative gays and lesbians whose goal was to expand Republicans’ awareness of LGBT issues and counter the rising influence of the religious right. 

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1674321 Here is some more info about the catalog itself...

Heres some info about Gallerist and collector Alexander Milliken who owned the highest priced Basquiat that has ever sold, 'Untitled'..

Untitled was executed by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982, which is considered his most valuable year. A majority of the highest-selling Basquiat paintings at auction date to 1982. Untitled depicts a skull, composed of black brushstrokes with red, yellow and white rivulets against a blue background. It originally sold for $4,000 in 1982. It was owned by the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York, before being sold to Phoebe Chason, who sold it to Alexander F. Milliken in 1982.