Untitled (Infantry), 1983
Jean-Michel Basquiat (* 22 December 1960 in New York City; † 12 August 1988 ibid.)
Acrylic on canvas
From the exhibition BASQUIAT. THE RETROSPECTIVE at the Albertina Museum in Vienna
Basquiat was guided here by the expressiveness of comic books to depict police violence. "He depicts the protagonist as a comic figure with a tumuscent bump towering on his head, who asks himself amid BOOM and BANG: WO BIN ICH [WHERE AM I]? The fact that Baquiat writes these words on the canvas in German could be an indication of the business relationship established in 1982 with the Swiss art dealer and collecor Bruno Bischofberger, who remained his gallerist until Basquiat's death." (Information text in the museum)
Untitled (Infantry), 1983
Jean-Michel Basquiat (* 22 December 1960 in New York City; † 12 August 1988 ibid.)
Acrylic on canvas
From the exhibition BASQUIAT. THE RETROSPECTIVE at the Albertina Museum in Vienna
Basquiat was guided here by the expressiveness of comic books to depict police violence. "He depicts the protagonist as a comic figure with a tumuscent bump towering on his head, who asks himself amid BOOM and BANG: WO BIN ICH [WHERE AM I]? The fact that Baquiat writes these words on the canvas in German could be an indication of the business relationship established in 1982 with the Swiss art dealer and collecor Bruno Bischofberger, who remained his gallerist until Basquiat's death." (Information text in the museum)