About Lot 180 Gallery
Lot 180 brings to market a treasure trove of carefully curated art, collectibles, and photographs for tasteful collectors and designers of all levels. Curated by Ron Kosa, a recent advisor to the Basquiat: Boom For Real exhibition in London, Lot 180 excels in the area of rare pop art, works from late 1970's/early 1980's New York, and beyond. Follow us for exciting new inventory added weekly.
Established in 20141stDibs seller since 2016
Featured Pieces
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, ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Area Nightclub poster 1984 (Area nightclub New York)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Area Nightclub 1984:
A RARE original 1984 street poster for the seminal & much legendary 1980s New York nightclub Area, uniquely featuring an alien-like Ronald Reagan; a poster that ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag Punk flyer (Post Marked 1984)
By Raymond Pettibon
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare Original Raymond Pettibon Black Flag Flyer, 1984
Early Black Flag Punk Flyer featuring artwork by Raymond Pettibon. A rare postmarked version. Further details:
Flyer / handbill...
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Warhol Basquiat Boxing Poster (Basquiat Warhol boxing The Palladium)
By Michael Halsband
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol/Jean Michel Basquiat: Original Paintings Exhibition Poster, 1985: 'Palladium Presents Warhol and Basquiat'.
The rare original, highly sought-after companion piece to the...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Basquiat Test Pattern 1979 (Basquiat Gray)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Test Pattern 1979:
Basquiat created this impossibly rare flyer on the occasion of a performance by his band, Test Pattern (later renamed to Gray), at the much fa...
Category
1970s Pop Art More Art
Materials
Offset
Keith Haring Drawing 1983 (Keith World Tour hat)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1983 Keith Haring Dancing Figures drawing on Keith Haring World Tour hat:
A rare, historic Keith Haring collectible featuring a sharply executed black mar...
Category
1980s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Ink
Basquiat 1979 Drawing (Basquiat Lounge Lizards draing)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Lounge Lizards 1979:
Impossibly rare original hand-drafted flyer by Basquiat for a performance by his close friend, John Lurie & the Lounge Lizards at Squat The...
Category
1970s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Keith Haring Crawling Baby Drawing c.1983
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Crawling Baby drawing circa 1983:
This rare original, early 1980s Keith Haring drawing was executed by the artist on printed material from ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Ink
KAWS SHARE Grey (KAWS companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS SHARE (Grey), new & unopened in its original packaging.
KAWS SHARE first appeared in 'BLACKOUT' – the first London solo exhibition by KAWS (Skarstedt London 2019). In SHARE, KA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Keith Haring Andy Warhol 1986
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring, Andy Warhol 1986:
Rare, highly sought-after oversized 1986 folding announcement card / poster illustrated by Keith Haring & Andy Warhol ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
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
We are a 1stDibs seller since 2016 specializing in Basquiat, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, KAWS & more.
_
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.
Related Categories:
Jean-Michel Basquiat Bischofberger...
Category
1980s Pop Art More Art
Materials
Paper
Warhol Basquiat Boxing advertisement 1985 (Warhol Basquiat boxing 1985)
By Michael Halsband
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat boxing pictorial, 1985.
Rare vintage 1985 large sized magazine advertisement for the historic Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat collaborations sh...
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Offset