By Michael Halsband
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol Jean-Michel Basquiat Boxing poster 1985:
The most sought-after Basquiat/Warhol collectible in existence - this work was published by Tony Shafrazi and Bruno Bischofberger on the occasion of the famed 1985 Warhol, Basquiat 'Paintings' show. The most historic and popularized image of the 1980's New York art scene. Not to be passed upon.
Medium: Offset lithograph. 1985.
Dimensions: 12 x 19 inches.
Fair overall vintage condition; small edge-line tears in a few areas; moderate signs of handling throughout; fold-line/crease along lower left; surface creasing lower right; scattered surface marks; curling that would flatten upon matting & framing.
Published by Tony Shafrazi, New York and Bruno Bischofberger, Switzerland. Photograph by Michael Halsband.
Provenance: Private Collection, New York.
History:
Tony Shafrazi, November 2015: "My good friend, the Swiss gallerist Bruno Bischofberger, had worked with Andy Warhol since the mid 1960s. He got to know Jean-Michel’s paintings and started working with him in 1982 or ’83. There had been a suggestion of a collaboration between Warhol, Basquiat, and Francesco Clemente. Then, Jean-Michel and Andy, very enthusiastically and seriously, went on to undertake a whole processes of painting collaboratively at Warhol’s Factory for a year to a year and half, making somewhere between 70 and 80 large paintings that represented an extraordinary—and very rare in history—body of work.
Their joint body of work represented a whole year and half of collaboration and production. It was not an overnight thing. The two artists worked together, one painting over the other, back and forth, and I immediately thought of two people sparring and boxing together, which is how I hit upon the idea of a boxing theme for the show’s advertisement."
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1980s Pop Art Michael Halsband Art
MaterialsLithograph, Offset