A 1980s <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> announcement card published on the occasion of Jean-Michel Basquiat at Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, January 7 - February 8, 1986.<ul><li>Offset printed gallery announcement card.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</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.

Basquiat Exhibition Announcement Card

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.

A set of Keith Haring-illustrated announcements published on the occasion of Haring's historic 1983 show at Fun Gallery in the East Village.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990).</li><li>Published for the occasion: Keith Haring at Fun Gallery, February 3rd to February 27th, 1983.</li><li>Offset printed.</li><li>Presented unframed.</li></ul> A historic, short-lived East Village gallery known for giving Keith Haring, Basquiat and Kenny Scharf some of their first solo shows; Fun Gallery was a place where neighborhood kids, downtown artists, b-boys, rock, film and rap stars mixed with museum directors, art historians and uptown collectors at wild openings featuring artists like Futura, Fab 5 Freddy, Lee Quinones, Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Keith Haring was an American artist and social activist known for his illustrative depictions of figures and symbols. His white chalk drawings could often be found on the blank poster marquees in New York’s public spaces and subways. “I don't think art is propaganda,” he once stated. “It should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.” Born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, PA, he grew up in neighboring Kutztown, where he was inspired to draw from an early age by Walt Disney cartoons and his father who was an amateur cartoonist. After briefly studying commercial art in Pittsburgh, Haring came across a show of the works of Pierre Alechinksy and decided to pursue a career in fine art instead. He moved to New York in the late 1970s to attend the School of Visual Arts, and soon immersed himself in the city’s graffiti culture. By the mid-1980s, he had befriended fellow artists Andy Warhol, Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and collaborated with celebrities like the singer Grace Jones. Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1988, Haring’s prodigious career was brief, and he died of AIDS-related complications on February 16, 1990 at the age of 31. Before his death, Haring established the Keith Haring Foundation, a non-profit committed to raising awareness of the illness through art programing and community outreach. Throughout his career, Haring made his art widely available through the location of his murals, as well as through Pop Shop—Haring's own storefront which he used to sell his memorabilia. The artist’s mural Crack Is Wack (1986) can still be seen today on a retaining wall along FDR Drive in Manhattan. Haring’s works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Keith Haring Exhibition Announcement Cards

An announcement card published for the occasion of the Andy Warhol exhibition, 'Golden Pictures,' December 2nd to 24th, 1957 at The Bodley Gallery in New York.<ul><li>Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987).</li><li>Double-sided offset lithograph in colors, on woven paper.</li></ul>

Golden Pictures Exhibition Announcement Card

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

Collection of cards announcing the Keith Haring exhibition, Into 84, which took place at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York in 1983.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Each includes "Painted Man" imagery: Haring painted dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones' body, which was then photographed by Haring's longtime friend and collaborator Tseng Kwong Chi.</li><li>Each has exhibition details on reverse.</li><li>Offset printed.</li></ul>

Into 84 Exhibition Announcement Cards

A collection of vintage <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Raymond%20Pettibon&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Raymond Pettibon</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=exhibition%20announcement%20cards&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">exhibition announcement cards</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6.</li><li>After Raymond Pettibon (American, born 1957).</li><li>Offset printed cards.</li><li>Published on the occasions of the following exhibitions:</li><li>Ikon LTD./Kay Richards, 1999.</li><li>Feature 1993.</li><li>Macba 2002.</li><li>Regen Projects 2006.</li><li>Santa Monica: Museum of Modern Art 2001.</li><li>David Zwirner 1997.</li><li>Each is presented unframed.</li></ul> "The only way you could let people know a show was happening was through an announcement or a poster. The art world was also much smaller at the time, so if you mailed out 200 invites, you were reaching a good core of the art world." (Rosen). Raymond Pettibon&nbsp;is a contemporary American artist known for his stylized ink drawings combining images and text. His inventive narratives blend historical content with consumer culture to yield incisive critiques of contemporary society. “I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology,” he explained. “There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures.” Born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, AZ, the artist is self-taught, but cites drawings by&nbsp;William Blake,&nbsp;Edward Hopper,&nbsp;Francisco Goya, and&nbsp;John Sloan&nbsp;as instructive to his practice. Deriving inspiration from comics, cartoons, and other pop culture iconography, Pettibon began designing album covers and ephemera for his brother’s band Black Flag in the mid-1970s. He went on to produce cover art for Sonic Youth, the Minutemen, and the Foo Fighters. In 2017, the artist was the subject of the major retrospective “Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work,” held at the New Museum in New York, where he currently lives and works. Today, his works can be found in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.

Raymond Pettibon Exhibition Announcement Cards

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.

Cards announcing separate exhibitions of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat's artwork, 1987.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Produced for the occasions of Basquiat Drawings, May–June, 1987, and Keith Haring Sculpture &amp; Painting, January 1987.</li><li>Both published during each artists' lifetime.</li><li>Offset lithograph printed.</li></ul>

Basquiat and Haring Exhibition Announcement Cards

A 1990s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Damien%20Hirst&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Damien Hirst</a> Gagosian <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=announcement%20card&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announcement card</a> published on the occasion of: 'No Sense of Absolute Corruption: Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY 1996.<ul><li>After Damien Hirst (English, born 1965).</li><li>Offset printed gallery announcement card.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Damien Hirst is a British Conceptual artist known for his controversial take on beauty and found-art objects. Along with Liam Gillick, Tracey Emin, and Sarah Lucas, Hirst was part of the Young British Artists movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s. “I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds,” he reflected. “Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.” Born on June 7, 1965 in Bristol, United Kingdom, Hirst was raised in Leeds. As a student at Goldsmiths College in London, his work caught the eye of the collector and gallerist Charles Saatchi, who became an early patron. Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991)—a large vitrine containing an Australian tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde—was financed by Saatchi and helped to launch the artist’s career. Hirst went on to win the coveted Turner Prize in 1995. In 2012, he showed what went on to be one of his most controversial work in decades, the installation In and Out of Love, which consisted of two white windowless rooms in which over 9,000 butterflies flitted around and died. In 2015 Hirst opened the Newport Street Gallery in London, which grew from his long-term ambition to share his art collection with the public. The artist lives and works in London, United Kingdom. His works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami.

Damien Hirst Exhibition Announcement Card

Exhibition Announcement cards with artwork by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Raymond+Pettibon&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Raymond Pettibon</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6.</li><li>After Raymond Pettibon (American, born 1957).</li><li>Published between 1993-2006.</li><li>Offset printed.</li><li>Each is presented unframed.</li></ul> Published on the occasion of the following Pettibon exhibitions:<ul><li>Ikon LTD./Kay Richards, 1999</li><li>Feature 1993</li><li>Macba 2002</li><li>Regen Projects 2006</li><li>Santa Monica: Museum of Modern Art 2001</li><li>David Zwirner 1997</li></ul>

An <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=announcement%20card&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announcement card</a> for the exhibition 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>'s work at Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris, January - February, 1988.<ul><li>After Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988).</li><li>Published by Yvon Lambert Paris.</li><li>Offset lithograph.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

A 1980s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=graffiti&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">graffiti</a> announcement published on on the occasion of an exhibition of the work of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Martin%20Wong&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Martin Wong</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Futura%202000&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Futura 2000</a> and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lori%20Taschler&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lori Taschler</a>.<ul><li>Offset printed announcement card.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A rare, historic graffiti artifact capturing Wong and Futura on the same 1980s venue. Semaphore Gallery was a contemporary art gallery founded by Barry Blinderman and A. James Shapiro in 1980 in New York City, located at 462 West Broadway in SoHo. In 1984, Semaphore East was also established on the corner of 10th and Avenue B in the East Village, Manhattan. Semaphore East closed in 1986, and Semaphore Soho moved to 136 Greene Street, across from Leo Castelli. The gallery closed in the summer of 1987, when Blinderman accepted the position of Director at University Galleries of Illinois State University.Semaphore Gallery championed the work of key figures such as, Martin Wong, Duncan Hannah, Robert Colescott, Raymond Pettibon, Alexander Kosolapov, Futura 2000, Jane Dickson, Tseng Kwong Chi, among others. Semaphore East, directed by Annie Herron, hosted one-person exhibitions for Lady Pink, Lori Taschler, Keith Haring, Robert Colescott, and other notable figures.

Martin Wong, Futura 2000, and Lori Taschler Exhibition Announcement Card

Jean-Michel Basquiat announcement cards and one early 1990s folding exhibition pamphlet.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 5</li><li>Published for the following occasions:</li><li>Emerging New York Artists, group show with Jean-Michel Basquiat, text by Klaus Kertess (folded pamphlet); published by the College of Fine Arts University of Nebraska, 1992.</li><li>Basquiat Works in Black and White: Basquiat at Robert Miller Gallery, 1994.</li><li>Basquiat at Jérôme de Noirmont Paris, 2002 featuring iconic Basquiat imagery from Tseng Kwong Chi.</li><li>Dubuffet and Basquiat: Personal Histories; Pace Gallery New York; April 28 – June 17, 2006.</li><li>Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing: Work from the Schorr Family Collection, April – June 2014.</li><li>Offset printed on paper.</li></ul>

Basquiat Exhibition Announcements

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 historic <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> announcement card published on the occasion of the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings, which occured April 8th through May 8th, 1982 at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles.<ul><li>Los Angeles: Gagosian Gallery, 1982.</li><li>Off-set printed gallery announcement.&nbsp;</li><li>Post-marked on the reverse.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Basquiat's first exhibition 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.

Jean Michel Basquiat: Paintings Exhibition Annoucement Card

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