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signed and dated ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat 1983’ (on the reverse) silkscreen ink on canvas. 57 ½ x 75 ½ in. (146.1 x 191.8 cm.) Untitled is packed with historical references, diagrams, and text, resulting in a vibrating synthesis of symbols that invite the viewer to decode meaning.At the height of his career in 1982, Basquiat traveled to Los Angeles with the ambition of producing a series of ...
3. Warrior. Warrior is a 1982 artwork by Basquiat and is described as a “semi-autobiographical piece that champions his artistic vision as a black artist.”. The painting sold for $41.8 million at Christie’s in Hong Kong in March 2021, making it the most expensive Western artwork ever sold at auction in Asia.
This excerpt from an October 2020 interview with the late Helga Feldman highlights her experience meeting artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who visited Dallas in 1985 when art dealer Marcia May and her husband Alan invited him to attend the DMA’s opening reception for the exhibition Primitivism in 20th Century Art. Sam F is a landmark gift for the ...
47 ¾ x 37 ¾ x 4in. (121.3 x 95.9 x 10.2cm.) Painted in the final year of his life, Self-Portrait is a vivid climax to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s meteoric career. The artist’s black silhouette emerges from a stark white backdrop, wearing his distinctive crown of dreads. His eyes and grin gleam laser-red; flashes of green and gold lend him a ...
Hace 1 día · Jean-Michel Basquiat is iconic for two reasons which amount to the same thing: he was a black artist and he painted in a way that recognised and popularised black heritage in art. Part of the 1970s-80s Neo-Expressionist art movement, Basquiat's paintings are full of frenetic but also very directed energy and vivid simple colours.
In 1985, he was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in connection with an article on the newly exuberant international art market. In that photograph, Basquiat is a vision of ... Major solo exhibitions include “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings 1981–1984,” Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1984; traveled to the Institute ...
Basquiat’s heroic figure stands firmly in the center of Warrior. With his sword held aloft and his fiery eyes, he commands the space around him. For such an authoritative figure, Basquiat constructs the image through a series of rapidly applied strokes of acrylic and spray paint along with oilstick—his medium of choice for many of the large-scale figurative paintings.
