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BASQUIAT x WARHOL 

Paris – France

Jean-Micchel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, OP OP, 1984-1985
Acrylique et bâton d’huile sur toile, 287 x 417cm,
Collection Bischofberger, Männedorf-Zurich, Suisse
© The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New-York
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc / Licensed by ADGAP, Paris 2023

After the success of the “Jean-Michel Basquiat” exhibition, seen by nearly 700,000 visitors in 2018, here is the shock duo – “Basquiat x Warhol” presented at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. A blockbuster bringing together some eighty of the one hundred and sixty canvases painted “four hands,” as well as individual works completed by a set of works of other personalities of the art scene of downtown New York in the 1980s: Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Kenny Scharf, Michael Hasband …  

Jean-Micchel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Collection No. 19, 1984-1985
Bâton d’huile sur toile,collage, encre sérigraphique et peinture polymère synthétique sur toile, 169 x 309cm
Collection particulière Israel
Courtesy Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
© The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New-York
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc / Licensed by ADGAP, Paris 2023

In addition to the crossed portraits (Basquiat by Warhol, Warhol by Basquiat), the 10m canvas African Masks and some other iconic canvases, the works exhibited focus on showing the process of figuration / disfiguration at the foundation of their exchanges which sometimes turned into a joust. Warhol, who envied Basquiat’s speed and freedom, freed himself from the “screen of silkscreening” and took up the brush to draw, without primer, logos and newspaper headlines, which Basquiat seized on voraciously, extending, metamorphosing, completing, illuminating, until his partner seized again on this “deluge of motifs and signs. More and more monumental, their canvases, mixing painting, collage, silk-screening…, masks, faces, logos and symbols…, consume the pop imagery in sometimes bloody flashes giving to the strikethrough all its expressive power, to the flow the power of the line and to the color, value of cry. 

Jean-Micchel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, 6.99, 1985
Acrylique et bâton d’huile sur toile, 297 x 410cm, Nicola Erni Production
© Reto Pedrini Photography
© The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New-York
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc / Licensed by ADGAP, Paris 2023
Andy Warhol Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat as David, 1984
Peinture polymère synthétique et encre sérigraphique sur toile, 228, 6 x 176, 5cm
Collection Norman et Irma Braman
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc / Licensed by ADGAP, Paris 2023

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