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1982 was a watershed year for Jean-Michel Basquiat. At twenty-one years old, he completed his transition from a graffiti artist to a star of the New York art scene. [ 2 ] Basquiat had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Rotterdam.
Irony of a Negro Policeman has been exhibited at major art institutions worldwide, which include: . Jean-Michel Basquiat at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, October 1992–February 1993; [1] The Menil Collection in Houston, March–May 1993; [1] Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, May–August 1993; [1] Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama, November 1993–January 1994.
Untitled is a 1981 painting created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981. An X-ray-like vision of the head's exposed upper and lower jaw accounts for its misinterpretation as a skull. The painting was acquired by Eli and Edythe Broad in 1982, and is now housed at The Broad museum in Los Angeles. [1]
Executed in 1982, Untitled (Head) is an outburst of vivid color, bearing echoes to one of Basquiat's most well-known heads Untitled. "Whereas Untitled (1981) presents the viewer with a mask-like visage caught somewhere between life and death, Untitled (Head) (1982) creates an effect that’s somewhat more supernatural because of its evocatively unnatural hues."
Untitled is a painting created by Haitian American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. The artwork, which depicts a skull, is among the most expensive paintings ever. In May 2017, it sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby's, the highest price ever paid at auction for artwork by an American artist in a public sale.
Basquiat's family curated Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure, an immersive exhibition with over 200 never-before-seen and rarely shown works. [197] King Pleasure debuted at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, New York in April 2022. [198] In March 2023, the exhibition traveled to the Grand LA in Los Angeles. [199]
Untitled (1982 Basquiat skull painting), by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Untitled, a 1981 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Untitled (History of the Black People), a 1983 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Untitled (One Eyed Man or Xerox Face), a 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Untitled (Pollo Frito), a 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York to a multicultural middle-class family on December 22, 1960. Under the alias SAMO, he painted poetic verses on the walls of lower Manhattan in the late 1970s. Within five years, Basquiat went from a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star renowned for his neo-expressionism ...