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Basquiat: The Modena Paintings

Basquiat: The Modena Paintings

Basquiat, Jean-Michel
Hasler, Iris
Keller, Sam

Paperback

American Art - African American & BlackIndividual ArtistsPainting Instruction

Publisher Price: $49.95

ISBN10: 3775755098
ISBN13: 9783775755092
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: Sep 5 2023
Pages: 126
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.60 Width: 9.20 Depth: 10.60
Language: English

Reuniting eight key Basquiat works that mark the graffiti artist's transition to painterly autonomy

This catalog focuses on eight paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat made in the summer of 1982, when he traveled to Modena, Italy, for one of his first solo exhibitions in Europe at the gallery of Emilio Mazzoli. Within the span of just a few days, Basquiat painted a group of large-format paintings that surpassed his previous work in both scale and method. Each measuring around 6.5 by 13 feet, these works mark Basquiat's transition from creating graffiti in the streets of Manhattan to painting on canvas. The conception and occasion of the exhibition ultimately proved fraught, and instead of conceding to pressure and expectations, Basquiat canceled the show. The paintings-including masterpieces that today are considered pivotal and among the most outstanding of his oeuvre-have never been shown together. This catalog revisits this crucial moment of Basquiat's career and reunites them for the first time.

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