Jean Basquiat Paintings
Artist at auction selling for 110 500 000.
Jean basquiat paintings. Part of the 1970s 80s neo expressionist art movement basquiat s paintings are full of frenetic but also very directed energy and vivid simple colours. I think about life. Many of the most important paintings that basquiat made in his short but prolific career are on display. Jean michel basquiat was born in brooklyn new york on december 22 1960 shortly after the death of his elder brother max.
Make offer xx large jean michel basquiat n york art painting oil acrylic on canvas 69 x 52. Rare jean michel basquiat original vintage painting cops and robbers. The jean michel basquiat exhibition at louis vuitton foundation in paris features 120 defining works from basquiat s career spanning from 1980 to 1988 shown over four floors of the frank gehry designed museum. I don t think about art while i work he once said.
Jean michel basquiat a signed original watercolor on paper. Xx large jean michel basquiat n york art painting oil acrylic on canvas 69 x 52. The resulting works appear raw and unfocused but in truth that is the opposite of what they are. On may 18 2017 at a sotheby s auction basquiat s 1982 painting also untitled created with oil stick and spray paint and depicting a skull set a new record high for any u s.
Acrylic oil stick pencil. A poet musician and graffiti prodigy in late 1970s new york jean michel basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling elusive symbols and diagrams and mask and skull imagery by the time he was 20.