After Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat

Vintage exhibition poster for Warhol | Basquiat: Paintings at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.

• Published by Tony Shafrazi, New York and Bruno Bischofberger, Switzerland.
• Photograph of artists by Michael Halsband.
• Offset lithograph in colors on coated woven paper.
• Exhibition works were the culmination of over a year of collaboration between Warhol and Basquiat.

Further History:

Tony Shafrazi, November 2015: "My good friend, the Swiss gallerist Bruno Bischofberger, had worked with Andy Warhol since the mid 1960s. He got to know Jean-Michel’s paintings and started working with him in 1982 or ’83. There had been a suggestion of a collaboration between Warhol, Basquiat, and Francesco Clemente. Then, Jean-Michel and Andy, very enthusiastically and seriously, went on to undertake a whole processes of painting collaboratively at Warhol’s Factory for a year to a year and half, making somewhere between 70 and 80 large paintings that represented an extraordinary—and very rare in history—body of work.

Their joint body of work represented a whole year and half of collaboration and production. It was not an overnight thing. The two artists worked together, one painting over the other, back and forth, and I immediately thought of two people sparring and boxing together, which is how I hit upon the idea of a boxing theme for the show’s advertisement."