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Jean Michel Basquiat, “Wine of Babylon” 1984

$2,250.00

Reproduction of the original oil on canvas. This is not the only Basquiat canvas at the core of a divorce dispute. In April, Italian film producer and former politician Vittorio Cecchi Gori accused his ex-wife, the Croatian actress and singer Rita Rusic, of stealing a Basquiat painting from their Italian home. Cecchi Gori bought Wine of Babylon (1984) in 1988 for $330,000 from Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York and kept the artwork in the private residence he shared with Rusic in Rome, from where it vanished in the year 2000. Rusic has denied stealing the artwork and claims to have no knowledge of the painting’s whereabouts.

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Sold By : Simply Art Camarillo Categories: Abstract Art, Graffiti Art, Jean Michel Basquiat, Neo Expressionist, Street Art
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Jean-Michel Basquiat (French; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an influential American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the 1980s, his neo-expressionist paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Basquiat’s art focused on “suggestive dichotomies”, such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings as a tool for introspection and for identifying with his experiences in the black community of his time, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism. Basquiat’s visual poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle. He died of a heroin overdose at his art studio at the age of 27. On May 18, 2017, at a Sotheby’s auction, a 1982 painting by Basquiat depicting a black skull with red and black rivulets (Untitled-1982) set a new record high for any American artist at auction, selling for $110.5 million. Basquiat’s art has inspired many in the hip hop music community such as Jay-Z.

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