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
> Painting
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 183,5 cm Width 183,5 cm Depth 4,5 cm |
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Artists |
Artist:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Accession number | 3687 (MK) |
Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Gift 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) Lievelingen (2024) |
External exhibitions |
Basquiat - The Artist and his New York Scene (2019) Boijmans bij de Buren - Meesterlijk! (2019) BASQUIAT. Of Symbols and Signs (2022) Flight into Egypt. Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now (2024) Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts: A Distant Conversation (2024) Power Mask. The Power of Masks (2017) |
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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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