Leon Kroll

Monique

1945

Artist: Ernest Joseph Laurent (French, 1859-1929) Title: "Sicile (Sicily)" Portfolio: Gazette Des Beaux-Arts *Issued unsigned, though monogram signed by Laurent in the plate (printed...

Artist: (after) Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988) Title: "FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain (Sans titre)" Year: 1993 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: likely Multigraphic Lauber & Romagnoli, Renens, Switzerland Publisher: FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully-Lausanne, Switzerland Reference: "Jean-Michel Basquiat" - FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, page 39 (illustrated) Sheet size: 50.13" x 35.63" Condition: Scattered mild handling creases to sheet. In otherwise excellent condition with full margins and clean edges We cannot find a single other example of this poster to have appeared on the secondary market or at auction ever before. Extremely rare Provenance: private collection - Hamburg, Germany. Poster produced for a special posthumous solo exhibition of Basquiat's work "Jean-Michel Basquiat" at FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully-Lausanne, Switzerland from July 10 to November 7, 1993. The image featured on this poster is Basquiat's 1982, 72" x 84.25", acrylic and oil stick on canvas painting which is untitled. Poster designed by Pierre Neumann (Swiss, 1951-). GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer: Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters. Biography: Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980's as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he was one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992. Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. He used social commentary in his paintings as a tool for introspection and for identifying with his experiences in the black community, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism. His visual poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle. Since his death at the age of 27 in 1988, Basquiat's work has steadily increased in value. In 2017, "Untitled", a 1982 painting depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings...