Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 3

1985 Basquiat announcement card (Basquiat 1985)

1985

$375
£281.97
€327.44
CA$523.68
A$580.80
CHF 305.01
MX$7,132.63
NOK 3,861.10
SEK 3,641.07
DKK 2,443.03
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

Basquiat, The Chi-Chi Show, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, March 1985: Original 1980s Basquiat announcement card published on the occasion of: 'The Chi Chi Show': Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY, 1985. Notable participating artists included Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Condo, and Julian Schnabel. A rare vintage 1980s Basquiat collector’s piece that is not to be passed upon. Medium: Offset printed gallery announcement card. 1985. Dimensions: 4.25 x 6.75 inches Good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene. His spray-painted crowns and scribbled words referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, to political issues, pop-culture icons, and Biblical verse. The gestural marks and expressive nature of his work not only aligned him with the street art of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, but also the Neo-Expressionists Julian Schnabel and David Salle. “If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence,” he said of his process. “It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.” Born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat never finished high school but developed an appreciation for art as a youth, from his many visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with his mother. His early work consisted of spray painting buildings and trains in downtown New York alongside his friend Al Diaz. The artist’s tag was the now infamous pseudonym SAMO. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 in New York, NY. The Whitney Museum of American Art held the artist’s first retrospective from October 1992 to February 1993. In 2017, after having set Basquiat’s auction record the previous year with a $57.3 million purchase, the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa surpassed it, buying the artist’s Untitled (1982) at Sotheby's for $110.5 million. This set a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for an American artist's work. Today, Basquiat's works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others.
  • Creation Year:
    1985
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 4.25 in (10.8 cm)Width: 6.75 in (17.15 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • After:
    Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988, American)
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    NEW YORK, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU354315488962

More From This Seller

View All
Jean-Michel Basquiat Memorial card 1988
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
A MEMORIAL GATHERING FOR JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988) SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER 1988 AT 2:30 PM ST. PETER'S CHURCH 619 LEXINGTON AVENUE AT 54 STREET Impossibly rare original memorial...
Category

1980s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Offset

Vintage Basquiat announcements 1992-2014 (set of 5)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
A set of 4 vintage Jean-Michel Basquiat announcement cards & one rare early 1990s folding exhibition pamphlet published on the occasion(s) of: “Emerging New York Artists,” Group Sho...
Category

20th Century Pop Art More Art

Materials

Offset, Paper

Basquiat 1987 Tony Shafrazi gallery announcement (vintage Basquiat)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat at Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1987: 1980’s exhibition announcements published during Basquiat's lifetime on the occasion of 'Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawings at Tony Shafrazi Gallery May 23–June 13, 1987'. Medium: Offset printed gallery announcement...
Category

1980s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Basquiat Gagosian Gallery Los Angeles 1982 (announcement)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, 1982: Basquiat announcement card published on the occasion of: Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings, April 8 - May 8 1982; Gagosian Ga...
Category

1980s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Paper

Basquiat Mary Boone Gallery 1985 (announcement)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat at Mary Boone Gallery New York 1985: Rare 1985 announcement card for the exhibition, 'Jean Michel Basquiat' held at Mary Boone Gallery, 417 West Broadway, New York. Jean-Mic...
Category

1980s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Offset

Jean-Michel Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery NY 1982-1988 (Basquiat Annina Nosei)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982-1988: A set of 2 rare vintage original Basquiat announcement cards from 1982 & 1988, respectively published on the occasion(s) of: - ‘Basquiat Anatomy’ 1982 (a suite of 18 screen prints). - Jean-Michel Basquiat December 3, 1988. Medium: 2 off-set printed gallery announcements. Dimensions: 4 x 6 inches & 6 x 8 inches 9 (anatomy). Each in good to very good overall vintage condition. Published by Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982-1988. Each unsigned from an edition of unknown. Scarce. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s dramatic life and iconic paintings—which variously feature obsessive scribbling, enigmatic symbols and diagrams, and iconography including skulls...
Category

1980s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

You May Also Like

1982 Basquiat Gallery Advertisements (Basquiat 1982)
By (after) Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1980's Jean-Michel Basquiat gallery advertisements (set of 2): A set of two historic, 1982 Basquiat gallery advertisements published on the occasion(s) of: Jean-Michel Basquiat Fun...
Category

Vintage 1980s Art Nouveau Books

Materials

Paper

Jean-Michel Basquiat, (1985 monograph, Hand signed and numbered by Basquiat)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1985 Limited Edition Artist's Book with Offset Lithographs. Hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat Hand signed and numb...
Category

1980s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Lt. Ed. Monograph of drawings, hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
This is a lifetime edition - hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat himself in Basquiat's lifetime. Many younger collectors don't appreciate the difference between the numerous posthumous estate authorized prints...
Category

1980s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Ink, Lithograph, Offset, Mixed Media

Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian Exhibition Poster
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Central, HK
After Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian Exhibition Poster, 2013 Exhibition poster 14 × 14 in 35.6 × 35.6 cm
Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

After Jean-Michel Basquiat-Florence-
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: LM411 Artist: after Jean-Michel Basquiat Title: Florence Year: 2002 Signed: No Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 25.5 x 35.75 inches ( 64.77 x 90.805 cm ) Image Size: 22.5 x 35.75 inches ( 57.15 x 90.805 cm ) Edition Size: 2000 Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Reproduction of a work after Jean-Michel Basquiat published for a retrospective at a museum in Italy in 2002. The image of “Florence, 1983” originally a very large painting...
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Supercomb (Exhibition Poster)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Supercomb created by Jean Michel Basquiat for his exhibition in Paris 1988. Ultra vibrant colors with many interesting details of images and text combined in Basquiat's easily recogn...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph