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JEAN M. BASQUIAT ORIGINAL KING SAMO PAINTING AFTER
After Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-1988, American) original "King SAMO" paint and ink on paper designed painting. This painting has abstract notes of poetry and social issues.Painting has an authenticated blue gallery stamp of the Basquiat estate, made after in the manner of Basquiat by another unlisted artist. Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duoSAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By theearly 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he wasone of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992.

Very fine.