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4 days ago · This image sold for $11.2 million in 2008. Untitled Fallen Angel is an eye-catching piece of art that encapsulates Basquiat's short life perfectly, mirroring his meteoric rise and fall. For a related painting, depicting Lucifer, you should also check out the Fallen Angel painting by Alexandre Cabanel. Learn more about Untitled (Fallen Angel) by ...
3 days ago · Olympic is an intriguing artwork from the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat. It dates from the early 1980s which was an important and prolific period for this famous American Abstract Expressionist. The portraits found within Olympic are a little more developed than most portraits that he produced elsewhere.
4 days ago · Pez Dispenser is an artwork created in 1984 by the Manhattan based artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). It depicts a dinosaur wearing a crown, and its style and form are entirely typical of Basquiat's work, which tended to blend elements of street art with a complex, neo expressionist style. Much of Basquiat's work was figurative, and much ...
5 days ago · Max Roach is certainly one of the more abstract paintings by Basquiat, in which it is hard to determine precisely what is going on, initially. The title alone, though, is enough to decipher the work with confidence. Max Roach himself was a popular American Jazz drummer and once we become aware of that, the entire artwork suddenly becomes much ...
4 days ago · Dustheads is a painting completed in 1982, by Jean-Michel Basquiat while he was at the height of his incredible yet short career. It is an ambitious piece, almost seven feet high, that Basquiat created using acrylics, oil stick, spray enamel and metallic paint on canvas. The piece shows two stick-like figures against a black background, a few ...
4 days ago · Basquiat's paintings often bear signs of his early days as a street artist, working at speed and in secrecy. While his canvases, such as this one: Red Man, which measures just over two metres on either side (204.5m x 210.8m) no longer demanded the stealth or speed of his early days, he still worked at a frenetic pace, committing his mind vision to canvas as fast as he could.
5 days ago · Jean-Michel Basquiat would use boxers within his work many times, both in a generic sporting form, but also sometimes capturing several specific figures, such as Sugar Ray Robinson. Indeed, Sugar Ray himself in mentioned within the text of Boxer Rebellion. The original design was created in 1982/1983 but as recently as 2018 there was a limited ...
