Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
American, 1960-1988
Emerging from the New York City street-art scene, Jean-Michel Basquiat would become one of the most significant artists of the 20th century as he mixed hand-scrawled text, vibrant color, gestural brushwork and themes of social commentary in a prolific output of Neo-Expressionist paintings. Although his pieces always retained the improvisational energy of graffiti, Basquiat used deceptively uncomplicated motifs such as crowns and professional boxers to honor the majesty and power of Black men and place himself in that lineage. Today, Basquiat’s art is among the most expensive in the world, with his paintings regularly fetching tens of millions of dollars at auction.
Born in Brooklyn to a Haitian-American father and Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat’s parents treated him to regular visits to New York City museums and nurtured his early talent for drawing cartoons. When he was hit by a car while playing in the street, Basquiat’s mother gave him a copy of the lushly illustrated medical reference book Gray’s Anatomy. Later, human bones and body parts such as skulls and rib cages would prove potent as subject matter for his provocative and spirited visual explorations of social issues as well as his own vulnerability and the struggles he faced as a Black artist.
As a teenager, Basquiat spray-painted city bridges with friend Al Diaz, and their “SAMO” tag caught the eyes of local artists. He left home before he was 20, selling hand-painted sweatshirts and postcards in Lower Manhattan. Because Basquiat was homeless — sleeping in parks and girlfriends’ apartments — he couldn’t afford proper canvases, and instead transformed found materials, such as old doors and windows, with paint and layered paper. The works vividly juxtaposed a street-art style with forms inspired by Abstract Expressionism.
Basquiat’s first public exhibition was “The Times Square Show” in 1980, a landmark event for artists experimenting with the boundaries between the galleries and the streets, with pieces by Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Kenny Scharf and Kiki Smith. His art soon garnered critical acclaim as well as the attention of collectors. Basquiat’s first solo show was at Soho’s Annina Nosei Gallery, in 1982, with another that year at Larry Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. His star continued to rise with multiple exhibitions in Europe, a 1983 feature in the Whitney Biennial and inclusion in a 1984 exhibition of painting at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. But he found that racist stereotypes persisted in press coverage of him, even as his profile expanded, and friends contend that he was exploited by collectors and art dealers. He battled a heroin addiction for years, and at the age of 27, Basquiat died from an accidental drug overdose on August 12, 1988.
Although it mainly spanned from 1980 to 1988, Basquiat’s career in visual art involved hundreds of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints and other works. This included collaborations with Andy Warhol, with whom he created a series of paintings between 1983 and 1985. Basquiat’s art has been exhibited in almost every major art museum in the world, and in 2017 his 1982 Untitled painting was sold for $110.5 million at a Sotheby’s auction.
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Style: Pop Art
Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Basquiat Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf 1988 (1980s Basquiat exhibition poster)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat Galerie Hans Mayer Düsseldorf 1988:
A rare, exceptional 1980s Basquiat illustrated exhibition poster published on the occasion of 'Jean-Michel Basquiat at Galerie Hans Maye...
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
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Lithograph, Offset
Basquiat 1983 Beat Bop Vinyl Record
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat Beat Bop 1983:
Original Beat Bop Vinyl Record, 1983 with music produced & arranged by Jean Michel Basquiat (see record label in photo for Jean Michel credit).
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Basquiat Gray vinyl record signed (Basquiat Record Art)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare "Gray, Shades of..." Vinyl Record Album featuring offset cover art from Jean Michel Basquiat, "who immortalized the work by integrating his fingerprint into the original piece (Gray Co-founder Michael Holman)." This jewel of a record also includes previously lost original sound recordings featuring Basquiat’s music and voice.
Rare 1st pressing published in 2010 from a sold out edition of 1000. This piece is hand-signed by fellow Gray members & Basquiat collaborators Nick Taylor and Michael Holman.
12x12 inches
New and sealed in its original packaging. Excellent condition.
Hand signed and numbered from an edition of 1000.
Looks fantastic framed.
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.
This utterly charming 27-track album is chock full of the road not taken, which sounds so right just now. It is refreshingly stripped of flagrant virtuosity but it is conceived brilliantly, played perfectly, and arranged impeccably... If a wine can have notes of chocolate, leather, licorice, and tobacco, then this record can have notes of William DeVaughn, Willie Hutch, Marcel Duchamp, Larry Coryell, the Modernaires, Sergio Mendez, the Tube Bar Tape, Chet Baker, Melvin Van Peebles, Gilberto/Jobim, and Dragnet."
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Untitled IV (from The Figure portfolio)
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Title: Untitled IV (from The Figure portfolio)
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Untitled III (from The Figure portfolio)
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Title: Untitled III (from The Figure portfolio)
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Basquiat The Offs 1984
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Lt. Ed. Monograph of drawings, hand signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Basquiat
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
In July, 2022, another example of this rare, hand signed lifetime limited edition monograph (book) of offset lithographs, hand signed and numbered on the first front end page, sold at Sotheby's in London for approx US $40,000
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...
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
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Portrait with Jack Kerouac (Basquiat's final exhibition)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Portrait with Jack Kerouac (Basquiat's final exhibition), 1988
Offset Lithograph for 1988 Vrej Baghoomian exhibition. Historic.
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, (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
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
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Basquiat hand-painted sweatshirt 1979/1980 (early Jean-Michel Basquiat)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat (untitled), 'MAN MADE Sweatshirt', c. 1979:
Basquiat produced this rare original hand-painted sweatshirt (among others, with only few known to have survived) for the purposes of selling these on his own and through the historic downtown fashion boutique, Patricia Field’s. Basquiat was captured wearing a similar example in the well publicized 1979 photo, 'Basquiat Dancing at The Mudd Club' by Nicholas Taylor of Gray. This double-sided work notably features Basquiat’s ‘MANMADE’ tag - Basquiat’s alias after he took to the streets to declare “SAMO is Dead”.
The work is further highlighted by Basquiat’s ‘BAD’ motif - uniquely paralleling his consideration to naming his band, ‘Bad Fools’ prior to Gray. In trademark Basquiat style, we also find the vertically spaced ‘E’ on both sides of the piece, as well as dashed lines which would appear in many of the artist’s Anti-Product cards, early drawings and more. The work emanates directly from the collection of world renowned author Lucy Sante (formerly Luc Sante). As it is well publicized, Basquiat worked with Sante in 1979/80 on the downtown-art scene publication, ‘Stranded’ (New York, 1980).
Medium: Acrylic on cotton sweatshirt (double-sided artwork). Executed circa 1979/1980.
Dimensions: 16.5 x 22 inches (outstretched cuff to cuff: 50 inches & sleeve length: 18 inches).
Condition: In good overall vintage condition. Bright well-preserved colors; some minor discoloration in several areas due to normal age related wear and use; scattered stains located on the hem, inner arm area(s) and cuffs; scattered minor pilling; loose thread on the reverse of hem. Basquiat's artwork throughout remains fully intact.
Unique. One of a kind. Signed ‘MANMADE’ and numbered 5/100 on the reverse.
Provenance: Gifted by Basquiat to Lucy Sante; obtained directly from the former. Sante's relationship to Basquiat is well documented in three publications (see below literature/references for more). Accompanied by a letter of provenance from Sante.
Literature/References:
-'Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat,' by Sarah Driver - this 2018 documentary features an in-depth section devoted to Basquiat's 'Man Made' clothing, featuring an interview with designer Patricia Field & artist Kenny Scharf.
- 'Basquiat Before Basquiat' (MCA Denver; see Sante, p.40-43 ).
- 'Stranded' issue four index (Spring 1980). Basquiat's identity is confirmed as 'Man-Made' midway on page.
- 'Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat' (Howl Arts 2018; essay: 'Stranded' by Lucy Sante).
- 'An Intimate Look at Jean-Michel Basquiat's Early Days' by Lucy Sante (Village Voice 2/8/17).
-'Man Made by Basquiat' (MinnieMuse) May 2019.
-'Exploring Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1970's Clothing Collection, 'Man Made.'' Vice Magazine, May 2019.
- ‘The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader’ (Moore pg. 334) discusses Basquiat’s Man Made painted clothing.
- 'Basquiat Dancing at The Mudd Club' photograph by Nicholas Taylor of Gray (Basquiat wears a similarly painted sweatshirt).
Basquiat’s use of ’MAN MADE', see:
- Glenn O'Brien "Graffiti '80;" High Times, June 1980 (p. 53-54); "Jean-Michel Basquiat who is known to many as SAMO, had changed his alias to Man Made".
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981, the Studio of the Street (Diego Cortez; 2007 p. 80).
- The Last Time I Saw Basquiat (NYR Daily 9/3/16; essay by Lucy Sante).
- Basquiat: Boom For Real (Barbican; Nairne, Buchhart & Johnson p.26).
- Sotheby's S2 Catalog & Sale, "Man Made" (May 2013).
Intertextual References:
Basquiat's 'BAD' motif further appears in the following 1979 works:
- "Stupid Games, Bad Ideas" (color xerox; see Basquiat: Boom For Real pg. 108).
- Basquiat (untitled) "Test Pattern" (original drawing and xerox; see Basquiat: Boom For Real pg. 147).
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
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Basquiat Gray 1980
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat (untitled) Gray 1980:
An exceptionally rare 1980 flyer created by Basquiat for his band, GRAY. Literature: Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street', (Deitch, Cortez, Vassell): Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (Buchhart, Bessières, Desmarais). Further background as follows:
Basquiat illustrated & printed this work much in the manner of his well-documented, Anti-Product Cards and several other xerox collages of this period: here, Basquiat draws over a found image, then employs his famous William Burroughs style 'cut-up' technique; completing the piece by abstractly scrawling the word, 'Gray' above. RARE & not be to be passed on.
Medium: Color Xerox on paper. 1980.
Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches.
Condition: Good overall vintage condition; scattered soiling marks; minor signs of handling & aging; typewriting on the reverse; minor corner bending in one or more places.
Unsigned from an edition of unknown; few known to have survived.
Provenance: Obtained directly from a prominent Basquiat Gray...
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
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Basquiat Test Pattern 1979 (Basquiat Gray)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Test Pattern 1979:
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat Beat Bop 1983:
Original Beat Bop Vinyl Record, 1983 with music produced & arranged by Jean Michel Basquiat (see record label in photo for Jean Michel credit).
12x12 inches (30.48 x 30.48 cm). 1983.
Record: Minor wear. Good overall vintage condition.
Further Background:
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s history with rap music runs deep. That connection was most visible in the “Beat Bop” 12-inch, a ten-minute sparring match between MCs/graffiti artists K-Rob and Rammellzee, which the legendary Brooklyn artist produced in 1983.
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 1983 Beat Bop Vinyl Record
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat Beat Bop 1983:
Original Beat Bop Vinyl Record, 1983 with music produced & arranged by Jean Michel Basquiat (see record label in photo for Jean Michel credit).
12x12 inches (30.48 x 30.48 cm). 1983.
Record: Minor wear. Good overall vintage condition.
Further Background:
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s history with rap music runs deep. That connection was most visible in the “Beat Bop” 12-inch, a ten-minute sparring match between MCs/graffiti artists K-Rob and Rammellzee, which the legendary Brooklyn artist produced in 1983.
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 The Offs 1984
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat The Offs 1984:
"The Offs: First Record" original first printing, 1984 featuring original offset artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Difficult to find in good condition with all original elements. This is from the original first edition, first printing/pressing produced during Basquiat's lifetime. See last 2 pics for the original double-sided insert (or mail catalog) issued solely with the very first pressing. Back cover displays credit to Basquiat for his cover art (photo 4).
Medium: Offset lithograph on vinyl record jacket, vinyl record.
Dimensions: 12 x 12 inches (30.48 x 30.48 cm).
Cover: Moderate surface & ring wear to front cover; in otherwise good overall vintage condition.
Includes the original record in very good overall vintage condition.
Original double-sided 1984 insert can be found in last two pics.
1st edition, 1st pressing not to be confused with later colored vinyl reissues etc.
The second of only two record covers designed by Basquiat during his lifetime. Originally from San Francsico, The Offs had moved to NY and soon started handing out at The Mudd Club & Max's Kansas City. Basquiat, a fan of the band, created what looks like a hollow skeleton defined by the artist's signature thorn crown. In his classic repetitive style, Basquiat repeats the bands name three times in the composition, finishing off with the album's title at the base.
Literature/References, see:
- Glenn O'Brien's The Beat in "Interview Magazine" May, 1985: O'Brien reviews the album and references Basquiat's cover art.
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (Buchhart, Bessières, Desmarais).
- Angela Holm in "NY Arts Magazine" March/April, 2008. Angela Holm & Wu Ziru in "Art Today" February, 2008.
- Taschen Art Record Covers (pg. 108)
Exhibitions:
LP Show" 2003, New York, NY - MOMA / Exit Art Vinyl - Records and Covers by Artists" in 2005 in Bremen's Neues Museum Weserburg; in 2006 in Barcelona, Spain, and 2007 in Porto, Portugal
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Within our 1stDibs collection, please find additional collectibles from Basquiat - including the famous Basquiat Beat Bop Record; along with Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Keith Haring, Raymond Pettibon, Banksy & more
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Basquiat 1983 Beat Bop Vinyl Record
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat Beat Bop 1983:
Original Beat Bop Vinyl Record, 1983 with music produced & arranged by Jean Michel Basquiat (see record label in photo for Jean Michel credit).
12x12 inches (30.48 x 30.48 cm). 1983.
Record: Minor wear. Good overall vintage condition.
Further Background:
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s history with rap music runs deep. That connection was most visible in the “Beat Bop” 12-inch, a ten-minute sparring match between MCs/graffiti artists K-Rob and Rammellzee, which the legendary Brooklyn artist produced in 1983.
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 Gray vinyl record signed (Basquiat Record Art)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare "Gray, Shades of..." Vinyl Record Album featuring offset cover art from Jean Michel Basquiat, "who immortalized the work by integrating his fingerprint into the original piece (Gray Co-founder Michael Holman...
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Basquiat The Offs 1984
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat The Offs 1984:
"The Offs: First Record" original first printing, 1984 featuring original offset artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Difficult to find in good condition with al...
Category
1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
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Lithograph, Offset
Basquiat Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf 1988 (1980s Basquiat exhibition poster)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat Galerie Hans Mayer Düsseldorf 1988:
A rare, exceptional 1980s Basquiat illustrated exhibition poster published on the occasion of 'Jean-Michel Basquiat at Galerie Hans Maye...
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Basquiat Gray vinyl record signed (Basquiat Record Art)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare "Gray, Shades of..." Vinyl Record Album featuring offset cover art from Jean Michel Basquiat, "who immortalized the work by integrating his fingerprint into the original piece (Gray Co-founder Michael Holman...
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Art
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Offset
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