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'Jean Michel Basquiat Dancing at The Mudd Club', New York City, 1979:
This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat - a friendship which began when both collaborated on the historic New York No Wave band, “GRAY” in the late 1970s; before the two briefly lived together in the East Village. Selections from Taylor's portfolio were most notably exhibited as part of the Basquiat retrospective at London's Barbican in 2017 and have been featured in numerous noteworthy publications on Basquiat.
Archival inkjet print.
18 x 24 inches (including borders).
Hand signed & numbered from an edition of 10.
Provenance: Nick Taylor.
Shipped flat using protective materials. Sold unframed.
Lot 180 gallery is an authorized dealer rep of Nick Taylor.
Taylor’s insightful photographs of a young Basquiat have been featured in numerous world renown publications, exhibits and documentaries surrounding Basquiat, among these:
"How Music Powered Basquiat," The New York Times, 9/22/17
Sotheby's "Untitled, 1982;" catalog, May, 2017
Artnet, 9/18/17: Debunking Basquiat’s Myths
The Mudd Club: Richard Boch, 2017
Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981, The Studio of the Street; Diego Cortez
King for a Decade: Jean Michel Basquiat; Taka Kawachi
Recent Exhibitions featuring Taylor's work:
Basquiat: Boom For Real, The Barbican, London, 2017/2018.
New York, New Music 1980-86: Museum of the City of New York (2021).
Nicholas Taylor: Further Background:
Nicholas Taylor (American, b. 1953) is a renowned photographer and musician. Taylor moved to New York in 1977 to pursue a career as a photographer and it was through the vibrant New York art scene that he came to know the young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. It was, in fact, his intimate portfolio of photographs documenting his friendship with Basquiat that rocketed Taylor to fame. The two would collaborate in the No Wave band “Gray” before Taylor launched a successful career as a DJ famous for track-looping. His track “Suicide Mode” would later be used in the soundtrack for Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film “Basquiat."
Circa 1981, Basquiat payed homage to Taylor by incorporating "Nick Taylor" and "DJ High Priest" (a title anointed him by Basquiat) into two separate drawings. While everyone else in the downtown tries to take credit, it was in fact Taylor who first introduced Jean-Michel to Madonna - at the Mudd Club - the very place this one of a kind image was captured.
More on The Mudd Club:
In the 1970s New York City, uptown had the glitz of Studio 54 and downtown had the Mudd Club: a legendary, downtown art scene venue known for pushing the boundaries of nightlife. The space became a natural collision of fashion, art, music, and literature. And the list of guests who walked through the front door reflected that scene: musicians like Grace Jones, Madonna, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, Fab Five Freddy, Marianne Faithfull, The Ramones, The Talking Heads, and Nico; fashion luminaries such as, Anna Sui, Betsey Johnson, and Gia Carangi; artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol; and literary stars like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.
The Mudd Club stood at 77 White St. at the corner of Cortlandt Alley when the area below Canal St. was considered an unsafe, no-go zone. As Richard Boch, a former doorman for the venue, wrote in his memoir, “I’ve always referred to the Mudd Club as the 'scene of the crime'...It was the night that never ended: the day before never happened, and the day after, a long way off. There was nothing else like it.”
Basquiat:
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.
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Basquiat photo. Photograph of Jean Michel Basquiat. Basquiat dancing at the Mudd Club. SAMO. Basquiat Gray. Basquiat Boom for Real.
- Creator:Nicholas Taylor (American)
- Creation Year:printed later
- Dimensions:Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
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- Gallery Location:NEW YORK, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU35437746472
Nicholas Taylor
Nicholas Taylor is a renowned photographer and musician. Taylor moved to New York in 1977 to pursue a career as a photographer, and it was through the vibrant New York art scene that he came to know the young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. It was, in fact, his intimate portfolio of photographs documenting his friendship with Basquiat that rocketed Taylor to fame. The two would collaborate in the No Wave band “Gray” before Taylor launched a successful career as a DJ famous for track-looping. His track Suicide Mode would later be used in the soundtrack for Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film Basquiat.
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By Nicholas Taylor
Located in NEW YORK, NY
'Jean Michel Basquiat Dancing at The Mudd Club', New York City, 1979:
This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat - a friendship which began when both collaborated on the historic New York No Wave band, “GRAY” in the late 1970s; before the two briefly lived together in the East Village. Selections from Taylor's portfolio were most notably exhibited as part of the Basquiat retrospective at London's Barbican in 2017 and have been featured in numerous noteworthy publications on Basquiat.
Archival inkjet print on 310gsm fiber based paper.
11 x 14 inches (including borders).
Hand signed & numbered from an edition of 50.
Provenance: Obtained directly from artist.
Shipped flat using protective materials.
Lot 180 gallery is an authorized dealer rep of Nick Taylor.
Taylor’s insightful photographs of a young Basquiat have been featured in numerous world renown publications, exhibits and documentaries surrounding Basquiat, among these:
"How Music Powered Basquiat," The New York Times, 9/22/17
Sotheby's "Untitled, 1982;" catalog, May, 2017
Artnet, 9/18/17: Debunking Basquiat’s Myths
The Mudd Club: Richard Boch, 2017
Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981, The Studio of the Street; Diego Cortez
King for a Decade: Jean Michel Basquiat; Taka Kawachi
Exhibits:
Basquiat: Boom For Real, The Barbican, London, 2017/2018.
More on Nicholas Taylor:
Nicholas Taylor (American, b. 1953) is a renowned photographer and musician. Taylor moved to New York in 1977 to pursue a career as a photographer and it was through the vibrant New York art scene that he came to know the young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. It was, in fact, his intimate portfolio of photographs documenting his friendship with Basquiat that rocketed Taylor to fame. The two would collaborate in the No Wave band “Gray” before Taylor launched a successful career as a DJ famous for track-looping. His track “Suicide Mode” would later be used in the soundtrack for Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film “Basquiat."
Circa 1981, Basquiat payed homage to Taylor by incorporating "Nick Taylor" and "DJ High Priest" (a title anointed him by Basquiat) into two separate drawings. While everyone else in the downtown tries to take credit, it was in fact Taylor who first introduced Jean-Michel to Madonna - at the Mudd Club - the very place this one of a kind image was captured.
More on The Mudd Club:
In the 1970s New York City, uptown had the glitz of Studio 54 and downtown had the Mudd Club: a legendary, downtown art scene venue known for pushing the boundaries of nightlife. The space became a natural collision of fashion, art, music, and literature. And the list of guests who walked through the front door reflected that scene: musicians like Grace Jones, Madonna, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, Fab Five Freddy, Marianne Faithfull, The Ramones, The Talking Heads, and Nico; fashion luminaries such as, Anna Sui, Betsey Johnson, and Gia Carangi...
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Materials
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By Nicholas Taylor
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"Basquiat knew funk, jazz and what was up. How many people were equally versed in Miles Davis and Funkadelic, Charlie Parker and Bootsy Collins, Thelonious Monk and the JBs?" (Glenn O'Brien, 'Gray Matters...
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BASQUIAT photograph New York, 1979 (Basquiat Gray)
By Nicholas Taylor
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat photograph by Nicholas Taylor:
This work is taken from Nicholas Taylor’s famous portfolio documenting his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat - a friendship which began whe...
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Photograph by Nick Taylor of Gray:
This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat - a friendship which began when both collaborated on the historic New York No Wave band, “GRAY” in the late 1970s; before the two briefly lived together in the East Village. Selections from Taylor's portfolio were most notably exhibited as part of the Basquiat retrospective at London's Barbican in 2017 and have been featured in numerous noteworthy publications on Basquiat.
"Basquiat knew funk, jazz and what was up. How many people were equally versed in Miles Davis and Funkadelic, Charlie Parker and Bootsy Collins, Thelonious Monk and the JBs?" (Glenn O'Brien, 'Gray Matters,' GQ, 2011)
Archival Inkjet Print.
11 x 14 inches (including borders).
Hand signed by Taylor on the reverse from a limited edition of 50.
Excellent overall condition.
Provided directly by artist. Listing dealer is a primary representative of Nicholas Taylor.
Related exhibitions featuring this work:
Basquiat: Boom for Real; Barbican London; September 2017-January 2018.
Museum of the City of New York (NY, New Music: 1980-1986): 2021.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music): 2022.
Nicholas Taylor (American, b. 1953) is a renowned photographer and musician. Taylor moved to New York in 1977 to pursue a career as a photographer and it was through the vibrant New York art scene that he came to know the young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. It was, in fact, his intimate portfolio of photographs documenting his friendship with Basquiat that rocketed Taylor to fame. The two would collaborate in the No Wave band “Gray” before Taylor launched a successful career as a DJ famous for track-looping (named "DJ High Priest" by Basquiat). His track “Suicide Mode” would later be used in the soundtrack for Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film “Basquiat."
Exhibitions:
Basquiat: Boom For Real at the Barbican Centre, London (9/21/17- Present)
Literature/Catalog Raisonne:
Basquiat: Boom For Real (Eleanor Nairne/Dieter Buchart)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King For A Decade (Taka Kawachi)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981, Studio of The Street (Diego Cortez)
For further history on Basquiat & his group Gray, please see:
"Gray Matters," by Glenn O'Brien (GQ magazine, 4/21/11)
"We formed a band: Jean-Michel Basquiat and the New York noise underground," The New Statesman, 9/29/17
"Bowie, Bach and Bebop: How Music Powered Basquiat" (New York Times 9/22/17)
Glenn O'Brien, "Gray Matters," GQ Magazine April, 2011:
"Gray’s approach to music was having heard music, to approach instruments and sound systems the way one would pick up a strange machine and try to intuit its operation and function. Since Basquiat didn’t know guitar technique, it seemed like a good idea to play one with a steel file. Michael Holman discovered that you could achieve a very nice effect by pulling masking tape off the skin of a snare drum... And then there was the clarinet that Basquiat liked to walk around with, that was as much a scepter and wand as wind instrument.
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By Nicholas Taylor
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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A rare, intimate look at Jean-Michel Basquiat's history as a musician - this work was one of four Taylor photo's chosen for exhibit at the much noted, Basquiat: Boom For Real exhibition at London's Barbican Centre. This work has been featured in numerous major publications on Basquiat.
Archival Inkjet Print.
16 x 20 inches (dimensions include a an approx 2 inch border).
Hand signed & numbered from an Edition of 10 (+ 5 APs).
Excellent condition.
Provided directly by Nicholas Taylor (represented by listing dealer Lot 180 Gallery NY).
Nicholas Taylor (American, b. 1953) is a renowned photographer and musician. Taylor moved to New York in 1977 to pursue a career as a photographer and it was through the vibrant New York art scene that he came to know the young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. It was, in fact, his intimate portfolio of photographs documenting his friendship with Basquiat that rocketed Taylor to fame. The two would collaborate in the No Wave band “Gray” before Taylor launched a successful career as a DJ famous for track-looping (named DJ High Priest by Basquiat). His track “Suicide Mode” would later be used in the soundtrack for Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film “Basquiat."
Exhibitions:
Basquiat: Boom For Real at the Barbican Centre, London (9/21/17- Present)
Literature/Catalog Raisonne:
Basquiat: Boom For Real (Show catalog; Eleanor Nairne/Dieter Buchart)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King For A Decade (Taka Kawachi)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981, Studio of The Street (Diego Cortez)
For further history on Basquiat's and Gray please see:
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