JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT 1960-1988 / LOW RESERVE/ Actual pencil and color pencil drawing 33x26-1/2 Inches framed and 25x19 Inches visible; signed and dated "Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981". Arches paper bears a water seal "RIVES". Jean Michel Basquiat hardly need an introduction..."he first achieved fame as part of SAMO, a graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in documenta in Kassel. At 22, he was the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art work in 1992."...list of his achievements goes on.Provenance: private collection purchase. Offered as Basquiat-after. Notice: Due to size international buyers may not be able to receive the frame if present. All inquiries welcomed prior to bidding.

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