Tony Shafrazi Presents Warhol Basquiat Boxing Poster 1985 HS
Jean Michel Basquiat
Limited Edition Print : Offset Lithograph Poster
Size : 18x12 in | 46x30 cm
Edition : Edition is Not Numbered
- 🔥1985 Hand Signed Offset Lithograph Poster - Inquire - A Steal
Year1985
Hand SignedUpper Right
Condition Excellent
Not Framed
Purchased fromPrivate Collector
Story / Additional InfoPLEASE NOTE: This is an exhibition poster that is 12 inches w x 18 inches that was printed to advertise the exhibition held at Tony Shafrazi Gallery. It is not the 12 x 19 inch mailer that was mailed postal. "Boxing Poster" utilizing Michael Halsband's iconic photograph of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat clad in Everlast trunks and gloves published in conjunction with the exhibition of their collaborative paintings produced during 1984 and 1985 presented by gallerists Tony Shafrazi and Bruno Bischofberger at Shafrazi's New York space at 163 Mercer Street.
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Jean Michel Basquiat - United States
Jean-Michel Basquiat. American. 1966-1980. 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 an 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. Authenticated Listings wanted.