Michael basquiat art

American artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, played an important and historic role in the rise of Punk Art and Neo-Expressionism.

The painting has been held in private collection since 1990, when it was acquired from Stéphane Janssen, the son of a wealthy Belgian industrialist and a tireless advocate for the CoBrA movement, who bought it from Larry Gagosian while visiting Basquiat’s studio the year it was created.

Who was Jean-Michel Basquiat? Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. He was one of the most influential American artists…

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reworked portraits

Fred Hoffman looks back on the creation of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Tuxedo (1983), examining the work’s significance in relation to identity and the hip-hop culture of the 1980s.

‘Nicotine walks on eggshells medicated, the earth was formless void, darkness face of the deep, spirit moved across the water and there was light. It was good. Breathing into the lungs, 2000 years of asbestos’, scribbled Jean-Michele Basquiat in neat capital letters in his notepads, on exhibition alongside his raw, colourful, powerful art. “Basquiat: Boom for Real at the @barbicancentre presents a life-line of the American artist in the context of New York’s countercultural scene of late…