A 1982 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=exhibition%20catalog&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">exhibition catalog</a> published on the occasion of: '<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jean-Michel%20Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a>- December 1982', Galerie Delta Rotterdam, Netherlands 1982:<ul><li>After Jean-Michel Basquiat (American).</li><li>Hans Sonnenberg (Dutch).</li><li>Rotterdam: Galerie Delta Rotterdam, 1982.</li><li>Softcover.</li><li>Offset printed exhibition catalog.</li></ul> The first Basquiat catalogue ever published featuring five color plates of key early works, a photo of Basquiat, and a biographical text in Dutch; written by Hans Sonnenberg. 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.

Basquiat Galerie Delta Rotterdam Exhibition Catalog

Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph by Nicholas Taylor.<ul><li>Silver gelatin print.</li><li>Signed, dated and numbered 2/5 by the photographer.</li><li>Part of Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat.</li></ul>

Jean-Michel Basquiat Photograph

A folding announcement card to <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jean-Michel%20Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a> at Vrej Baghoomian Gallery New York: 10/21 to 11/25, 1989.<ul><li>After Jean Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Published by Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, 1989.</li><li>Pictured on front side is an image of Basquiat's iconic, 'Red Warrior.'</li><li>Unsigned from an edition of unknown size.</li><li>Off-set printed gallery announcement.</li></ul> Jean-Michel Basquiat rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene. His spray-painted crowns and scribbled words referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, to political issues, pop-culture icons, and Biblical verse. The gestural marks and expressive nature of his work not only aligned him with the street art of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, but also the Neo-Expressionists Julian Schnabel and David Salle. “If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence,” he said of his process. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 in New York, NY. The Whitney Museum of American Art held the artist’s first retrospective from October 1992 to February 1993.

Basquiat Exhibition Announcement Card

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Special%20Feature=Signed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of a <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jean-Michel%20Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a> exhibition catalog, from the exhibition at the Gallery Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich from January 19th to February 16th, 1985.<ul><li>Jean Michel Basquiat (American).</li><li>Zurich: Bischofberger Editions, 1985.</li><li>12 full-page color plates (one folding) and a photographic portrait of Basquiat by Jeannette Montgomery.</li><li>Number 173 of an edition of 1000 hand-signed and numbered by Basquiat.</li><li>Hardcover.</li></ul> “Jean-Michel, contrary to what you might think, absolutely did not consider himself a ‘Graffiti Artist.’ He had always seen himself as a Fine Artist, and his influences ranged from Leonardo Da Vinci to Abstract Expressionists like Cy Twombly and Franz Kline” (John Seed). In January 1985, Basquiat enjoyed his first one-artist show, at the Bischofberger Gallery in Zurich. This is the commemorative book of 12 paintings from that show." Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene. His spray-painted crowns and scribbled words referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, to political issues, pop-culture icons, and Biblical verse. The gestural marks and expressive nature of his work not only aligned him with the street art of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, but also the Neo-Expressionists Julian Schnabel and David Salle. “If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence,” he said of his process. “It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.” Born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat never finished high school but developed an appreciation for art as a youth, from his many visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with his mother. His early work consisted of spray painting buildings and trains in downtown New York alongside his friend Al Diaz. The artist’s tag was the now infamous pseudonym SAMO. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 in New York, NY. The Whitney Museum of American Art held the artist’s first retrospective from October 1992 to February 1993. In 2017, after having set Basquiat’s auction record the previous year with a $57.3 million purchase, the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa surpassed it, buying the artist’s Untitled (1982) at Sotheby's for $110.5 million. This set a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for an American artist's work. Today, Basquiat's works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others.

Signed Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibition Catalog

Announcement cards from Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibitions at Annina Nosei Gallery from 1982 to 1988.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Announcement cards for the following Basquiat exhibitions:</li><li>Basquiat Anatomy, 1982.</li><li>Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1988.</li><li>Jean-Michel Basquiat Paintings 1982, 1986.</li></ul>

Jean-Michel Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery Announcement Cards

Basquiat executed this one line poem circa 1982 while living with a noted Gray bandmate.<ul><li>Single page removed from notebook.</li><li>The line reads: "SOME BORING HARBOR / CAMERAS MILD SUSPENCE."</li><li>Ink on paper.</li><li>Obtained directly from a prominent Basquiat Gray band member whose typewritten prose appears on the reverse.</li><li>Accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from the aforementioned.</li></ul> Here, Basquiat begins to play with the idea of beginning a screenplay, with the work’s empty space and liner notes leaving us to surreally fill in the blanks. The work further echoes Basquiat’s one-line street poems during his (earlier) SAMO period and famed notebook entries, not to mention his interest in beat poetry and fragmented prose scenarios mirroring the style and influence of William S. Burroughs. During the very early part of his career, Basquiat also experimented with screenwriting.

Handwritten One Line Poem

A hand-<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> 1986 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed&amp;query=Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> catalog published on the occasion of Jean-Michel Basquiat Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover: 28th of November, 1986, to the 25th January, 1987.<ul><li>After Jean Michel Basquiat.</li><li>Hanover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1986.</li><li>Approximately 100 pages.</li><li>Featuring 60 works by a then 25 year old Basquiat, Kestner is widely remembered as Basquiat’s last major exhibition during his lifetime. -</li><li>Signed and inscribed to ‘Hans’ on the interior title page.</li><li>With full-page images of over 30 Basquiat paintings, in addition to several in collaboration with Andy Warhol.</li><li>Text in German.</li><li>Bound in stiff wraps.</li></ul> Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene. His spray-painted crowns and scribbled words referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, to political issues, pop-culture icons, and Biblical verse. The gestural marks and expressive nature of his work not only aligned him with the street art of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, but also the Neo-Expressionists Julian Schnabel and David Salle. “If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence,” he said of his process. “It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.” Born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat never finished high school but developed an appreciation for art as a youth, from his many visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with his mother. His early work consisted of spray painting buildings and trains in downtown New York alongside his friend Al Diaz. The artist’s tag was the now infamous pseudonym SAMO. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 in New York, NY. The Whitney Museum of American Art held the artist’s first retrospective from October 1992 to February 1993. In 2017, after having set Basquiat’s auction record the previous year with a $57.3 million purchase, the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa surpassed it, buying the artist’s Untitled (1982) at Sotheby's for $110.5 million. This set a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for an American artist's work. Today, Basquiat's works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others.

Kestner-Gesellschaft Exhibition Catalog Signed by Basquiat

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Medicom%20Toy&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Medicom Toy</a>&nbsp;BE@RBRICK&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jean-Michel%20Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a>&nbsp;#8.<ul><li>Includes one 1000% BE@RBRICK.</li><li>Stamped on the underside of the foot.</li><li>This iconic BE@RBRICK features Basquiat's signature crown in a repeating pattern.</li><li>Artist signature printed on back.</li><li>Made in China.</li></ul>

BEARBRICK Jean Michel Basquiat #8 1000%

A 1988 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=exhibition%20announcement&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">exhibition announcement</a> card, designed and illustrated by the artist just months before his death in August of the same year.<ul><li>After Jean Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Published by The Hans Mayer Gallery, 1988.</li><li>Published on the occasion of 'Jean-Michel Basquiat at Galerie Hans Mayer Düsseldorf, Grabbeplatz 2 Jan 1st – Mar 31st 1988.'</li><li>Offset lithograph in colors printed on heavy paper.</li><li>Basquiat printed signature to lower left.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The Hans Mayer Gallery Düsseldorf, began with a Josef Albers show in 1965 and concentrated on constructionist art in the following years. In 1969 Hans Mayer was the first to show Andy Warhol in Düsseldorf. The gallery later added exhibitions by further standout artists, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Bill Beckley, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, Keith Haring, &amp; Jean Michel Basquiat in the years to follow.

Basquiat Galerie Hans Mayer Exhibition Annoucement Card

A card announcing the forthcoming release of "<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a>&nbsp;Anatomy," a suite of 18 screen&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">prints</a>.<ul><li>Published by Annina Nosei Gallery New York, 1982.</li><li>Offset printed on paper.</li><li>Unfolded, never mailed.</li></ul>

Basquiat Anatomy Announcement Card

Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph by Nicholas Taylor.<ul><li>Silver gelatin print.</li><li>Signed and numbered by the photographer from an AP of 3.</li><li>Part of Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat.</li></ul>

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jean-Michel%20Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a> illustrated <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poster</a> for the “Ikonoklast Panzerism versus Tricnology” lecture with Rammellzee, at Squat Theater, New York, October 30th, 1982:<ul><li>After Jean Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Illustrated by Basquiat for a one-night benefit organized by Basquiat assistant, Stephen Torton with New York graffiti and downtown art scene legends: Rammellzee, A-One, Koor Bone, Toxic (Toxic C One), Jean-Michel Basquiat, DJ High Priest (Nick Taylor), Fab 5 Fred Brathwaite; with special guests: Frosty Freeze, and Diego Cortez.</li><li>Offset lithograph.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul>

Basquiat Rammellzee ‘Ikonoklast Panzerism versus Tricnology’ Poster

A copy of the vinyl record album Gray, Shades Of... featuring offset cover art from Jean-Michel Basquiat, signed by fellow band members Nick Taylor and Michael Holman.<ul><li>First pressing.</li><li>Numbered from an edition of 1,000.</li><li>Hand-signed in black ink.</li><li>Cover design by Basquiat features the artist's fingerprint.</li></ul>

Basquiat Record Cover Art: Gray, Shades Of...

Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph by Nicholas Taylor.<ul><li>Silver gelatin print.</li><li>Signed, dated and numbered by the photographer from an AP of 4.</li><li>Part of Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat.</li></ul>

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> created this printed flyer in 1981 to advertise a band performance within his feature acted film: <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Downtown%2081%20%2F%20New%20York%20Beat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Downtown 81 / New York Beat</a>.<ul><li>After Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Offset printed flyer, 1981.</li><li>Accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from Basquiat's notable friend and collaborator.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The flyer with text and imagery by Basquiat, promotes a segment performance by James White and The Blacks: Jan 12, 1981 at Peppermint Lounge: West 45th street New York, NY. A much historical work, notably exhibited and catalogued as part of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music exhibit (October 2022 - February 2023) and sister show at the Paris Philharmonic (March - July 2023). ‘In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed-out bohemia they lived and breathed. Left unfinished due to assorted legal and financial issues until it was fully assembled for release in 2000,&nbsp;Downtown 81&nbsp;follows Basquiat, a naturally compelling screen presence, as he tries to hawk a painting (one of the artist’s own first works) while hustling for a place to sleep. So what was meant to be a document of its time instead became a window into a long-lost world of life on the margins and creative ferment—and it feels especially potent today, when NYC had transformed into an artless ghost town, before escalating racial injustices brought people back to the streets. The film features appearances by John Lurie, Fab 5 Freddy, and Debbie Harry; musical performances by DNA, James White and the Blacks, and Kid Creole and the Coconuts; and, most remarkable of all, a portrait of a more innocent Manhattan in all its mangy glory.’ (Metrogrpah)

Basquiat Downtown 81 / New York Beat Music Flyer

Basquiat illustrated and printed this flyer for his band Gray in 1980.<ul><li>Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Unsigned from an edition of unknown size.</li><li>Xerox printed on paper.</li><li>Accompanied by a letter of provenance.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Executed similarly in the manner of his well-documented Anti-Product Cards of the period, Basquiat draws over a found image, then employs his famous William Burroughs-style "cut-up" technique, completing the piece by abstractly scrawling the word "Gray" above. First called Channel 9, then Test Pattern, the Basquiat co-founded group settled on the name "Gray" after Basquiat's fondness for the textbook Gray's Anatomy. Gray was an experimental New York Noise band defined by jazz improvisation, spoken word poetry, sound looping and everything in between. Gray members included co-founder Michael Holman, Nick Taylor, Shannon Dawson, Wayne Clifford and eventually Vincent Gallo. "Jean-Michel did all the posters for the band" (see Fretz, Basquiat A Biography p.40), and the group most notably played the likes of historic downtown clubs such as CBGB, The Mudd Club, Squat Theater and Hurrah's. The late Glenn O'Brien once noted that Basquiat approached music as a "Picasso-Charlie Parker-Miles Davis" collage. Basquiat, who played clarinet, synthesizer and a number of hybrid instruments, once said of Gray, "We were trying to be incomplete, abrasive, oddly beautiful." A description much in line with the nature of his art going forward. Based on the nature of how "Gray" is written, it's likely Basquiat was influenced by the mysterious religious-zealot-turned-urban-legend/street artist famous for key scratching "Pray" on hundreds of New York City building doors and phone booths in a similar style.

Gray Band Flyer

Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph by Nicholas Taylor.<ul><li>Silver gelatin print.</li><li>Signed, dated and numbered 1/3 by the photographer.</li><li>Part of Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat.</li></ul>

Jean-Michel Basquiat at Vrej Baghoomian Gallery Poster.<ul><li>Part of an unnumbered edition of unknown size.</li><li>Offset lithograph on paper.</li><li>Produced for the occasion of the artist's exhibition at Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, April - June 1988, which would end up as the last exhibition of Basquiat's work prior to his death several months later.</li><li>Poster displays a photographic portrait of the artist holding a copy of the book The Subterraneans, by Jack Kerouac.</li></ul>

Jean-Michel Basquiat Poster

A hand-drafted flyer by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=jean%20michel%20basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> for a performance by his close friend, John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards at Squat Theater in New York, December 1, 1979.<ul><li>Jean Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Ink on paper.</li><li>Unsigned.</li><li>Accompanied by a letter of provenance.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> John Lurie was considered one of Basquiat’s closest friends; and has been a significant and prolific member of the New York downtown art and cultural scene since the 1970s. Lurie had a role in the Basquiat film Downtown 81 and starred in Jim Jarmusch’s pioneering independent films&nbsp;Stranger Than Paradise&nbsp;and&nbsp;Down by Law. His jazz-punk band&nbsp;The Lounge Lizards&nbsp;were at the forefront of the late-1970s New York ‘No-wave’ music scene. At its founding, the band consisted of John Lurie and Evan Lurie, guitarist&nbsp;Arto Lindsay, bassist Steve Piccolo, and percussionist&nbsp;Anton Fier. Though partly inspired by jazz, John Lurie said he used guitarists in the band "to foil the music when it gets too jazzlike.”

Basquiat John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards Hand-Drafted Music Flyer

Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph by Nicholas Taylor.<ul><li>Silver gelatin print.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered by the artist in the margins from an edition of 5 APs.</li><li>Part of Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat.</li></ul>

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vintage poster</a> announcing <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Basquiat&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> (as SAMO) in his first major show; curated by the great Basquiat champion, Diego Cortez, the show would mark Jean-Michel's official unveiling to the art world.<ul><li>Poster designed by Randolph Black.</li><li>Basquiat credit (as SAMO) found in the lower area of the top second area.</li><li>Offset lithograph.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A historical document of the New York downtown art scene of the time, additional participants included (with their names listed on the poster): Keith Haring, Futura 2000, Andy Warhol, Kenny Sharf, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Dondi, Lady Pink, Lawrence Weiner &amp; many more figures of historic acclaim.

Basquiat Exhibition Poster | New York/New Wave P.S.1 1981

Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph by Nicholas Taylor.<ul><li>Silver gelatin print.</li><li>Signed and numbered by the photographer from an AP of 5.</li><li>Part of Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat.</li></ul>

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Inscribed</a> by early Basquiat champion &amp; historic downtown art scene critic and curator, Glenn O’Brien, New York Beat brilliantly documents the production of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Downtown%2081&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Downtown 81</a>, director Edo Bertoglio's seminal take of New York's Downtown scene, featuring a turn, 19 year old J<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=ean-Michel%20Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ean-Michel Basquiat</a> as semi-biographical protagonist.<ul><li>Glenn O'Brien (American).</li><li>Photographs by Bertoglio and Maripol.</li><li>Tokyo: Petit Grand Publishing, Inc., 2001.</li><li>112 pages.</li><li>Hardcover book with dust wrapper.&nbsp;</li><li>Reverse of interior jacket forms a striking vertical poster featuring Basquiat's portrait.</li><li>Text in English and Japanese.</li></ul> "Shot as New York Beat in 1980-1981 but completed for release only last year, Downtown 81 emerges as a nostalgic portrait of pre-Giuliani Manhattan, an unruly place full of garbage, graffiti, rubble-strewn lots, unlicensed after-hours clubs and highly idealistic kids eager to make their mark as avant-garde artists and musicians. The film's central figure is Jean, a young Bohemian engagingly played by a not yet famous Jean-Michel Basquiat. Jean survives mainly by relying on the worldwide network of hip: there will always be another bar to go to, another gig to Crash, another wealthy European to write a check, another gorgeous model in a Cadillac convertible to give him a ride home. The script, by the rock critic Glenn O'Brien, also the film's co-producer, follows the basic day-in-the-life format, beginning with Jean's release from a hospital. Jean returns to his Alphabet City tenement to find an angry landlord demanding his back rent, and departs with a painting he hopes to sell. The day brings many disappointments but also many fortuitous encounters. He meets assorted new-wave musicians (Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Tuxedomoon, James White and the Blacks, DNA, the Plastics, and Walter Steding, most of whom perform); go-go dancers; and street people, among them Deborah Harry, who plays a bag lady with magical powers. It's as a documentary that Downtown 81 is most successful, particularly at those moments when the somewhat unfocused filmmaking allows us to look past the foreground characters and catch glimpses of a vanished cityscape: the pornography shops and grind houses of West 42nd Street, the greasy spoons and outlet stores of East 14th Street, the labyrinthine interior of the Mudd Club in what was then the largely uncharted territory south of Canal Street." (New York Times, 7/13/01) Glenn O'Brien, an American writer and art/fashion critic, was a close friend, confidante and early champion of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

New York Beat: Jean-Michel Basquiat Downtown 81

Medicom Toy BE@RBRICK Jean-Michel Basquiat #7.<ul><li>Includes one 1000% BE@RBRICK.</li><li>Stamped on the underside of the foot.</li><li>This iconic BE@RBRICK features imagery from an Untitled Basquiat painting from 1982.</li><li>Basquiat signature printed on back.</li><li>Made in China.</li></ul>

BEARBRICK Jean Michel Basquiat #7 1000%

Medicom Toy BE@RBRICK Jean-Michel Basquiat #6.<ul><li>Includes one 1000% BE@RBRICK.</li><li>Stamped on the underside of the foot.</li><li>This iconic BE@RBRICK is adorned with a Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled painting from 1982.</li><li>Basquiat signature printed on back.</li><li>Made in China.</li></ul>

BEARBRICK Jean Michel Basquiat #6 1000%

A card announcing an exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat's artwork at Mary Boone Gallery, New York.<ul><li>Published for the occasion of Basquiat's second solo exhibition, March 2–23, 1985.</li><li>Printed in two colors on heavy woven textured cardstock with raised lettering.</li></ul>

Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibition Announcement Card

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=jean%20michel%20basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> created this flyer on the occasion of a performance by his band, Test Pattern (later renamed to <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=basquiat%20gray&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gray</a>), at the much fabled downtown art space, “A’s", December 5th, 1979, at 330 Broome Street, New York.<ul><li>After Jean Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Published by the artist, 1979.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A much historical work, notably exhibited and catalogued as part of the 2017 Basquiat London Boom for Real exhibition at the Barbican Center and more recently at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MBAM) &amp; Paris Philharmonic. Basquiat's unique squiggly line, signature vertically spaced "E", use of random technical information, and text, sometimes crossed out, is already apparent in this most seminal early work. Basquiat playfully includes, then crosses his name out on the mid lower left alongside fellow band members. From Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography, Fretz, 2010:“Jean-Michel did all the posters for his band. One of the early public performances was in December 1979 at A’s, a loft at 330 Broome Street... Arleen Schloss, the owner, also let Jean-Michel stay there at times and use it as a studio for his “MAN MADE” clothing… [The hand-drawn poster for the gig] is done in his recognizable style, with strange arrows and notations added underneath. Some of the words are crossed out, and there is a dotted line of ink splashed through the middle of the page. A photocopied micro-cassette finishes off the look, suggesting some kind of sound, but not conventional music.”

Basquiat Test Pattern Concert Flyer

A collection of ephemera relating to Jean-Michel Basquiat, including announcement cards, a press release and a promotional book.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Two announcement cards and one press release produced for the occasion of Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1981: The Studio of the Street, curated by Diego Cortez and Glenn O’Brien at Deitch Projects, NYC, 2006.</li><li>One promotional book produced for the Basquiat movie Downtown 81.</li><li>Offset printed.</li></ul>

Jean-Michel Basquiat Ephemera Collection

BE@RBRICK Jean-Michel Basquiat Art Toys.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Each of the 4 sets include both the 100% and 400% versions.</li><li>Each is wrapped with iconic Basquiat artwork imagery.</li><li>Stamped on the underside of each.</li><li>From a sold-out and out-of-print edition of unknown size.</li><li>Made in China</li></ul>

BEARBRICK Jean-Michel Basquiat Art Toys

Basquiat illustrated and printed this flyer for his band Gray for the occasion of Gray with DNA at the legendary CBGB club on March 22, 1980.<ul><li>Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Unsigned from an edition of unknown size.</li><li>Xerox printed on paper.</li><li>Accompanied by a letter of provenance.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Here, Basquiat, in a surreal, film-noir like pattern, employs his own printed fingerprints in the design to suggest a forthcoming Gray performance as a crime-scene waiting to happen, with "GRAY" very discreetly written within one of the fingerprints. A uniquely personal and very striking insight into Basquiat’s own musical history.

A Basquiat announcement card published on the occasion of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jean-%20Michel%20Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jean-Michel Basquiat </a>at Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California, on March 8th to April 2nd, 1983.<ul><li>Published by Gagosian, Los Angeles, 1983.</li><li>Off-set printed folding gallery announcement.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Basquiat first exhibited in Los Angeles at the Gagosian Gallery in 1982. He liked Los Angeles and was given a friendly reception by local collectors, prompting him to set up a studio in Venice Beach in 1983. His second L.A. show in 1984, and what would be his last exhibition on the West Coast, in 1986, were both at Gagosian Gallery as well.

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Basquiat&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Basquiat</a> exhibition <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poster</a>, published on the occasion of: Jean-Michel Basquiat at Larry Gagosian Gallery, 510 North Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.<ul><li>After Jean Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Offset lithograph.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This well-sized vintage Basquiat-designed poster is defined by (printed) found objects around a central figure depicted in “X-ray” style, with organ references throughout. Imagery of a gasoline pump and jagged metal gates further surround this central figure, as does anatomical references; and lists of grains, elements, and American companies. The exhibition info is reproduced in Basquiat’s handwriting along the poster’s lower edge.

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