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Posthumous Basquiat: Art Ephemera From After August 12, 1988

For serious collectors of art ephemera one important consideration is that items date from when an artist is alive and working. There is a certain logic to this. The best art ephemera chronicles an artist’s career and for most artists very little of significance happens after their death. Jean-Michel Basquiat…

“Emerging New York Artists,” Group Show with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Text by Klaus Kertess, Folded Card, College of Fine Arts University of Nebraska, 1992

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Size: 6.25 x 9 Inches

“The cosmic and comic, leering fury of Jean Michel Basquiat’s disembodied faces and abstract strokes of paint looks back to the agitated linearity of Jackson Pollack, as well as to the tribal art of his African forebears. He transformed the graffiti of his youthful beginnings into a disarmingly frenetic elegance.”

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