Jean-Michel Basquiat Prints and Multiples
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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Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Crowned T-Rex - Lithograph, 1997
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Crowned T-Rex, 1997
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 76 x 56 cm (c. 29.9 x 22 in)
Published by Galerie Enrico Navarra
Authentica...
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Welcoming Jeers - Lithograph, 1997
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Welcoming Jeers, 1997
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 29.9 x 22 in)
Published by Galerie Enrico Navarra
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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
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 Prints and Multiples
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Ink, Lithograph, Offset, Mixed Media
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jean-Michel Basquiat Prints and Multiples
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The King - Lithograph, 1997
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
The King, 1997
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 76 x 56 cm (c. 29.9 x 22 in)
Published by Galerie Enrico Navarra
Authenticated b...
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1990s American Modern Jean-Michel Basquiat Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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...
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Prints and Multiples
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Offset, Lithograph
Basquiat Gray 1980
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat (untitled) Gray 1980:
Basquiat illustrated & printed this exceptionally rare flyer for his band Gray in 1980. Executed similarly in the manner of his well-documented Anti-Product Cards of the period - 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. Few known to have survived. Not to be passed upon.
Literature:
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street', (Deitch, Cortez, Vassell); Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (Buchhart, Bessières, Desmarais).
Exhibited:
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street: Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, 2006; New York, New Music 1980-86: Museum of the City of New York (2021); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (2022); Basquiat Soundtracks: The Philharmonie de Paris, 2023 (The Paris Philharmonic). Further background as follows:
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 Prints and Multiples
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Offset, Lithograph
Basquiat Rammellzee poster 1982
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1982:
RARE original 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat illustrated poster for “Ikonoklast Panzerism versus Tricnology” lecture with Rammellzee, Squat Theater, New York, ...
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1980s Pop Art Jean-Michel Basquiat Prints and Multiples
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SIGNED BASQUIAT Kestner-Gesellschaft exhibition catalog 1986
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Hanover 1986:
Rare hand-signed 1986 Basquiat catalog published on the occasion of Jean-Michel Basquiat Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover: 28 November 1986 to 25 January 1987. Featuring 60 works by a then 25 year old Basquiat, Kestner is widely remembered as Basquiat’s last major exhibition during his lifetime. Signed boldly & inscribed to ‘Hans’ (Meyer?) on the interior title page.
Medium: signed exhibition catalogue
Bound in stiff wraps. Text in German. Approximately 100 pages. Features full-page images of over 30 Basquiat paintings, in addition to several in collaboration with Andy Warhol.
Well preserved bold, marker signature & inscription. Book: very good overall vintage condition.
From a scarce edition of unknown. Distinctly rarer when signed.
Provenance: Obtained from a noted Manhattan rare book specialist. Accompanied by a COA from Lot 180 Gallery, New York
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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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Jean-Michel Basquiat Downtown 81 / New York Beat, 1981
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Downtown 81 / New York Beat:
Basquiat created this impossibly rare printed flyer in 1981 to advertise a band performance within his feature acted film: Downtown ...
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Basquiat Food for the Soup Kitchens poster 1983
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat 'Food for the Soup Kitchens' Fashion Moda, New York 1983:
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- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022You can see Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings in a number of locations. Some of his work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York. On 1stDibs, find a selection of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022The meaning of Jean-Michel Basquiat's art varied from piece to piece. Generally, the American artist attempted to illustrate dichotomies, such as the experience of the wealthy versus the experience of the poor and the inner self versus the outer self. On 1stDibs, shop a range of Jean-Michel Basquiat art.