Flexible

£100,000

1984/2016
Screen print on paper
153 x 115 cm
Edition of 85
Bears the signatures of Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, Administrators of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat on verso as well as the stamps of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Flatiron Editions.

Basquiat’s experiences of marginalisation and racism profoundly impacted his work, which often referenced outsider cultures and critiqued politics as well as capitalism. “Flexible”, featuring the figure of a griot, a West-African storyteller, entertainer, and holder of oral history, is demonstrative of the artist’s interest in black history and non-Western culture.

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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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