After Jean-Michel Basquiat

The most up to date edition of the Jean-Michel Basquiat catalogue raisonné, released in 2010. 

• Sold as a set of 3 volumes.
• After Jean Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).
• Contributors: Bruno Bischofberger, Richard D. Marshall, Tony Shafrazi, Achille Bonito Oliva, Glenn O’Brien, John Cheim, Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr, Diego Cortez, Ouattara, Demosthenes Davvetas, Johnny Depp, Annina Nosei, Jean-Louis Prat, Herbert and Lenore Schorr, Michael Ward Stout, Robert Farris Thompson, Larry Warsh.
• New York/Paris: Tony Shafrazi Gallery and Galerie Enrico Navarra, 2010.
• Third edition.
• Hardcover.
• Includes an appendix not included in past editions.
• Volume 1: 376 pages; Volume 2: 312 pages; Appendix: 64 pages.
• Sealed within its original slipcase.

The appendix includes updates and information about newly added works, plus installation photos from Basquiat’s 2010 exhibition at Fondation Beyeler as well as an introduction written by Enrico Navarra and an essay by Achille Bonito Oliva; with further texts by Johnny Depp, Richard D. Marshall, Diego Cortez, Annina Nosei, Glenn O’Brien, Bruno Bischofberger, and other notable Basquiat scholars.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s dramatic life and iconic paintings—which variously feature obsessive scribbling, enigmatic symbols and diagrams, and iconography including skulls, masks, and the artist’s trademark crown—make him one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. The self-taught painter embraced graffiti before committing to a studio practice. He found a mentor and friend in Andy Warhol, who helped the young artist navigate the 1980s New York art world. Across his oeuvre, Basquiat drew on his own Caribbean heritage; a convergence of African American, African, and Aztec cultural histories; classical themes; and pop cultural figures including athletes and musicians. The immediacy and intellectual depth of his paintings won him widespread acclaim both before and after his untimely death at the age of 27. Basquiat’s paintings now belong in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. In 2017, Basquiat’s Untitled (1982) notched $110.5 million at auction and became the most expensive artwork by an American artist to ever be sold.