1983/2002
Vinyl record with original screen-printed double-sided record jacket and record label in black and white
Published by Tartown Record Co., New York
12 1/16 x 12 3/8 in. (30.6 x 31.4 cm)
Head *
2001
Hand-pulled limited edition screenprint
Signed by Gerard Basquiat, Executor of
the Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat
(verso), and hand-numbered in pencil (recto)
40 x 40 inches (102 x 102 cm), unframed
Edition of 85
Hollywood Africans in Front of the Chinese Theater with Footprints of Movie Stars *
1983/2015
23-color screenprint on 4-ply Museum Board
Signed and stamped by the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, verso
38.5 x 84 in. (97.8 x 213.4 cm.)
Edition of 60
Rebel Boxer
1982/2018
Screenprint in colors on BFK Rives paper
Signed by Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, and numbered
29 x 39 1/2 in. (73.7 x 100.3 cm), unframed
Edition of 60
Rinso *
1982/2001
9 color screenprint on Saunders 410 Hot Press watercolor paper
Signed by Gerard Basquiat, Administrator of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, verso
40 x 40 in. (101.5 x 101.5 cm.)
Edition of 85 + AP
Untitled
1988
Lithograph on matte paper
29 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. (74 x 52 cm), unframed
From the unsigned, open edition as issued
(Original exhibition poster, Yvonne Lambert Gallery, 1988
Untitled (The Offs) *
1984
(A vinyl record album with lithographic record jacket that includes the first published vinyl album by The Offs)
Lithograph
12 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches (31 x 31 cm)
Edition of 2500
Untitled *
2017
Screenprint in colors on original skateboard deck
32 1/2 x 8 1/4 in (82.6 x 21 cm)
From the unsigned, open edition as issued
(With the copyright of the Jean Michel Basquiat Estate, verso)
Untitled *
2017
Screenprint in colors on original skateboard deck
32 1/2 x 8 1/4 in (82.6 x 21 cm)
From the unsigned, open edition as issued
(With the copyright of the Jean Michel Basquiat Estate, verso)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a Haitian-American father and a mother of Puerto Rican decent. At an early age, he showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six. Basquiat first gained notoriety as a teenage graffiti poet and musician. By 1981, at the age of twenty, he had turned from spraying graffiti on the walls of buildings in Lower Manhattan to selling paintings in SoHo galleries, rapidly becoming one of the most accomplished artists of his generation. Astute collectors began buying his art, and his gallery shows sold out. Critics noted the originality of his work, its emotional depth, unique iconography, and formal strengths in color, composition, and drawing. By 1985, he was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine as the epitome of the hot, young artist in a booming market.
Tragically, Basquiat began using heroin and died of a drug overdose when he was just twenty-seven years old. In 2005, his work was celebrated in a major retrospective held at the Brooklyn museum. This and museums around the world house a significant number of the artist’s most highly regarded work.
Basquiat, Jean-Michel
Tragically, Basquiat began using heroin and died of a drug overdose when he was just twenty-seven years old. In 2005, his work was celebrated in a major retrospective held at the Brooklyn museum. This and museums around the world house a significant number of the artist’s most highly regarded work.