Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled from The Figure Portfolio (Published by Flatiron Editions) 2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled from The Figure Portfolio (Published by Flatiron Editions) 2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled from The Figure Portfolio (Published by Flatiron Editions) 2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled from The Figure Portfolio (Published by Flatiron Editions) 2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled from The Figure Portfolio (Published by Flatiron Editions) 2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled from The Figure Portfolio (Published by Flatiron Editions) 2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled from The Figure Portfolio (Published by Flatiron Editions) 2023

Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled from The Figure Portfolio

Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Title: Untitled

Portfolio: 1982/2023 The Figure Portfolio

Medium: Hand-pulled screenprint

Date: 2023

Edition: 85

Sheet Size: 48" x 32"

Signature: Stamped and signed by Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, the artist’s sisters and administrators of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Reference: Published by Flatiron Editions


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Jean‑Michel Basquiat was an American artist. He first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Basquiat's art focused on "suggestive dichotomies", such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, and figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings as a "springboard to deeper truths about the individual", as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle. Despite his work's "unstudied" appearance, Basquiat very skillfully and purposefully brought together in his art a host of disparate traditions, practices, and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage, one deriving, in part, from his urban origins, and in another a more distant, African-Caribbean heritage. "Basquiat's canon revolves around single heroic figures: athletes, prophets, warriors, cops, musicians, kings and the artist himself. In these images the head is often a central focus, topped by crowns, hats, and halos. In this way the intellect is emphasized, lifted up to notice, privileged over the body and the physicality of these figures (i.e. black men) commonly represent in the world.” said Kellie Jones, Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel in the (Re)Mi Basquiat's work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980s American Punk, or graffiti-based and counter-cultural practice could become a fully recognized, critically embraced and popularly celebrated artistic phenomenon, indeed not unlike the rise of American Hip Hop during the same era.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982/2023 The Figure Portfolio Portfolio, (Published by Flatiron Editions), 2023, Signed, Hand-pulled screenprint, Edition 85, 48" x 32" Sheet Size

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