BASQUIAT
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Self-portrait (1983)
Oilstick on paper on wood
"Jean-Michel Basquiat ([basˈkja] * 22 December 1960 in New York City; † 12 August 1988 ibid.) was an American artist, painter and sketcher. He was the first African American artist to make a breakthrough in the mainly white art world." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat
He "rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. [...] Since Basquiat's death at the age of 27 from a heroin overdose in 1988, his work has steadily increased in value. In 2017, Untitled, a 1982 painting depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat
From the exhibition BASQUIAT. THE RETROSPECTIVE at the Albertina Museum in Vienna
"Virtually no other artist comes anywhere close to being as representative of the 1980s and that decade’s pulsating New York art scene as does the brilliantly exceptional artistic phenomenon that was Jean-Michel Basquiat." www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/basquiat/
BASQUIAT
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Self-portrait (1983)
Oilstick on paper on wood
"Jean-Michel Basquiat ([basˈkja] * 22 December 1960 in New York City; † 12 August 1988 ibid.) was an American artist, painter and sketcher. He was the first African American artist to make a breakthrough in the mainly white art world." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat
He "rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. [...] Since Basquiat's death at the age of 27 from a heroin overdose in 1988, his work has steadily increased in value. In 2017, Untitled, a 1982 painting depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat
From the exhibition BASQUIAT. THE RETROSPECTIVE at the Albertina Museum in Vienna
"Virtually no other artist comes anywhere close to being as representative of the 1980s and that decade’s pulsating New York art scene as does the brilliantly exceptional artistic phenomenon that was Jean-Michel Basquiat." www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/basquiat/