Subverting Art History, Basquiat’s ‘Versus Medici’ To Fetch As Much As $50 Million, On Heels Of $41.9 Million Record Asia Sale

The painting has been held in private collection since 1990, when it was acquired from Stéphane Janssen, the son of a wealthy Belgian industrialist and a tireless advocate for the CoBrA movement, who bought it from Larry Gagosian while visiting Basquiat’s studio the year it was created.