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    JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)

    SAMO with Ernok

    2001

    Lithograph, P.P. 1/5
    101x100.5cm

    Signed and numbered P.P. 1/5

    Estimate TWD 950,000-1,200,000
    USD 32,200-40,700
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 1,003,000
    USD 33,942
    HKD 0

Signed and dated on the stamped certificate of authenticity by the executor Gerard Basquiat (Father of Jean-Michel) on the verso, numbered on the recto

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Exposition：The Screenprint printed and published by DeSanctis Carr Fine Art

“I knew I am going to be famous since I was 17 years old. Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix were always on my mind and enabled me to have a romantic imagination on how people became famous.”
---Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a legendary neo-expressionist artist in contemporary art history and he began his career in the late 1970s in Soho, New York. It was an era of transformation between new and old, and the birth of new art forms, graffiti attracted the attention of the art world and the media.
Later inspired and encouraged by Andy Warhol, Basquiat evolved into an acclaimed artist. Rene Ricard introduced Basquiat with the topic “The Radiant Child” in Artforum in 1981. This was also the turning point of Basquiat’s career. Ever since he stepped foot on the international stage, he successfully challenged racism and broke barrier of races. This graffiti kid from Soho has become a serious artist. Basquiat as an acclaimed artist yet drugs and alcohol addiction took his life while he was only 27. However, his remarkable art works impacted his era.

Basquiat excels in utilizing the combination of lines and colors to create a unique art language. Liberally using different materials and techniques, his style is wild and wise; modern yet primal and successfully brought out sarcasm towards race, culture and the society. He once said “When I create, I try to think about life, not art.”

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