A Panel of Experts

£49,500

1982-87/2022
Screen print on paper
Edition of 85
Stamped and signed by Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, the artist’s sisters and administrators of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
102cm x 102cm
Sold framed

The fistfight at the top of the left rectangle of this piece is a stick-figure representation of an actual encounter between two women in a New York nightclub: Basquiat’s girlfriend, Suzanne Mallouk (nicknamed Venus) and his lover, the singer Madonna, who, despite the copyright symbol beside her name, was not yet a celebrity.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

The most notorious artist of the 1980s New York gallery scene, Basquiat hung out with Warhol, appeared in a Blondie video, and died of an accidental overdose at just 27 years old. Starting his career with witty street scrawlings under the tag SAMO, he went on to achieve superstar status through topical pieces with wide-ranging reference points – from his Puerto Rican heritage to the medical textbook, Gray’s Anatomy. Basquiat...

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