Basquiat’s work was anchored in graffiti culture with its tags and street language, but he also referred to modern art, famous African Americans and his own background, often with a healthy dollop of social criticism. From 1980 Basquiat was a rising star in New York. In 1982 Delta was the first gallery to show his work in the Netherlands. Sonnenberg sees Basquiat as ‘a historical continuation in the line of Jean Dubuffet, Cobra and Willem de Kooning’.
Specifications
| Title | Kings of Egypt III |
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| Material and technique | Oil on canvas |
| Object type |
Painting
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
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| Artists |
Artist:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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| Accession number | 3687 (MK) |
| Credits | Bruikleen / Loan: Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Schenking / Donation: Hans Sonnenberg 2012 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 2012 |
| Creation date | in 1982 |
| Collector | Collector / Hans Sonnenberg |
| Entitled parties | © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. c/o Pictoright Amsterdam, 2022 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Meneer Delta, een galeriehouder en verzamelaar in het museum (2012) |
| External exhibitions |
Power Mask. The Power of Masks (2017) Basquiat - The Artist and his New York Scene (2019) Boijmans bij de Buren - Meesterlijk! (2019) BASQUIAT. Of Symbols and Signs (2022) |
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All about the artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat
New York 1960 - New York 1988
Jean Michel Basquiat's mother was Puerto Rican and his father was of Haitian descent. In 1977, Basquiat began spraying graffiti on the walls of Manhattan, where...
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