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 is the exception here, an artist whose presence, popularity and importance has continued to surge after he has died. Basquiat’s short 8 years career, masked his prodigious production and there has been much to discovered and re-evaluate after his death. His soaring prices—a key part in a much broader art world story—has also kept him front and center. Finally, there is the dramatic arc of Basquiat’s brilliant but tragic life. The story of a groundbreaking “outsider” climbing to the heights and then dying young has proved irresistible for writers, filmmakers and graphic novelists.
Gallery 98’s earlier online exhibition A Survey of Jean-Michel Basquiat Ephemera focused on the art ephemera produced when he was still alive.
From the Collection
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• Bass Museum
• Cindy Sherman
• David Salle
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Jenny Holzer
• Julian Schnabel
• Kenny Scharf
• Martin Wong
• Robert Rauschenberg
• Ronnie Cutrone
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• Gallery Exhibition Cards
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Julian Schnabel
• Robert Rauschenberg
• Roy Lichtenstein
• Sperone Westwater
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• David Salle
• Donald Baechler
• Expressionism
• Francesco Clemente
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Julian Schnabel
• Kenny Scharf
• Sandro Chia
• Tony Shafrazi Gallery
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• Auction Catalogues & Price Lists
• BLADE
• Blade - Books, Catalogs, Periodicals
• Graffiti and Street Art
• Henry Chalfant
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Keith Haring
• Kenny Scharf
• Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara)
• Martha Cooper
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• African Diaspora
• Artforum Advertisements
• Cheim & Read
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Robert Miller Gallery
• Text and Word Art
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