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Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery 1982 (Basquiat anatomy announcement)
1982

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982: Rare Basquiat announcement card published by Annina Nosei Gallery to advertise the release of ‘Basquiat Anatomy’ (a suite of 18 screen prints). Medium: Off-set printed gallery announcement card on smooth wove paper, 1982. Dimensions: 6 x 8 inches (folded open). Very good overall vintage condition. Unfolded, never mailed. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Scarce. Published by Annina Nosei, New York, 1982. Acquired directly from publisher. Text reads: “Annina Nosei Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Anatomy.’ An edition of 18 photo silkscreen prints and 5 artists proofs by Jean Michel Basquiat 1982.” Further Background: "Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Anatomy is the artist’s first portfolio of prints and it distills many of the thematic qualities that define the artist’s early work. The series was created shortly after his inaugural solo exhibition, organized by the Annina Nosei Gallery in March of 1982. Nosei provided the artist with a studio in the basement of her gallery, where Anatomy was conceived. Anatomy encapsulates Basquiat’s fascination with the human form and the written word. Beginning in early 1981, the artist produced hundreds of drawings and paintings depicting skulls and skeletons." (source: Sotheby's) Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene. His spray-painted crowns and scribbled words referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, to political issues, pop-culture icons, and Biblical verse. The gestural marks and expressive nature of his work not only aligned him with the street art of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, but also the Neo-Expressionists Julian Schnabel and David Salle. “If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence,” he said of his process. “It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.” Born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat never finished high school but developed an appreciation for art as a youth, from his many visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with his mother. His early work consisted of spray painting buildings and trains in downtown New York alongside his friend Al Diaz. The artist’s tag was the now infamous pseudonym SAMO. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 in New York, NY. The Whitney Museum of American Art held the artist’s first retrospective from October 1992 to February 1993. In 2017, after having set Basquiat’s auction record the previous year with a $57.3 million purchase, the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa surpassed it, buying the artist’s Untitled (1982) at Sotheby's for $110.5 million. This set a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for an American artist's work. Today, Basquiat's works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others.

Creation Year:

1982

Dimensions:

Height: 6 in (15.24 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)

Medium:

Paper,Lithograph,Offset

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

After:

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988, American)

Period:

1980-1989