Crown by Jean Michel BasquiatThis Jean Michel Basquiat rare lithograph print iconic large pop art Swiss exhibition poster Crown 1982, is an incredibly special and unique piece to add to your collection. The lithograph print exhibition poster is published by the Fondation Beyeler Museum Riehen / Basel, printed in Switzerland in 2010 in an unnumbered limited edition on the occasion of the exhibition. It features an iconic untitled Crown artwork created by Basquiat in 1982, courtesy of Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York, copyright Prolitteris, Zurich. Jean Michel Basquiat was born to two Haitian immigrants in Brooklyn New York in 1960. His early creative career was as the street graffiti artist nicknamed Samo in the late 1970s on New York City's lower east side. By the early 1980s with the help of his friend Andy Warhol, Basquiat began to make his emotionally charged aesthetically arresting neo expressionist paintings. In 1992 the Whitney Museum did a retrospective exhibition of the life works of this great American contemporary artist and Master of Social commentary. His work focused on suggestive dichotomies such as wealth vs poverty, integration vs segregation, and inner vs outer experience of the human condition. He appropriated poetry, drawing, painting, & married text and image with abstraction and figuration. Basquiats works had strong social commentary and deeper truths about the individual and the power structures of racism, and criticism of colonialism and support for class struggles. It is printed on high quality heavyweight paper stock with vibrant ink colors in a satin finish. The rare out of print large format exhibition poster measures 39 x 27.5 in.

39 x 27 in