Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Iconic Works
by: Buchhart, Dieter

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli International, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in white. 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color. This Brant Foundation exhibition partially restages three of the artist's critical early shows, including an exhibition of the artist's paintings and drawings of heads at Robert Miller Gallery; his most important canvases from Gagosian Gallery's 1982 show in Los Angeles; and Basquiat's solo show at Fun Gallery in the East Village. Buchhart also considers in-depth the artist's so-called stretcher bar paintings, in which the normally hidden wooden supports for stretched canvases are exposed, works that have yet to be explored at length by scholars.