'Beat Pop Triptych' by Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2020 (artwork created in 1983)
A set of 3 skatedecks featuring Basquiat's most prolific work entitled "Beat Pop", 1983. Made from 7-ply 100% North American Maple wood, bonded with Epoxy Resin.
8 x 32 Inches each.
Graphics on each deck utilize the multi-media aspects in his artwork, with both single level and raised ink areas.
Signed in the plate on the back of each deck with official "Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat licensing" stamp below.
Limited Edition (Sold Out)
New. Sealed in plastic wrap.

In 1983, Jean-Michel Basquiat produced one of the most valuable hip-hop records ever made: Beat Bop, a 10-minute single performed as a rap battle between K-Rob and Rammellzee, with the album jacket and vinyl art created by Basquiat himself.

ARTIST BIO

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 – 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he was part of the Neo-expressionism movement.

Basquiat 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 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.

Since Basquiat's death at the age of 27 from a heroin overdose in 1988, his work has steadily increased in value. At a Sotheby's auction in May 2017, Untitled, a 1982 painting by Basquiat depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased. It also set a new record high for an American artist at auction.
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