JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: UNTITILED.

A painting on card of a warriot by Jean-Michel Basquiat. signed on verso. Size: 19.5 x 10 inches. Mounted and framed, supplied with coa. A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. I don t think about art while I work, he once said. I think about life. Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent and a convergence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians. Often associated with Neo-expressionism, Basquiat received massive acclaim in only a few short years, showing alongside artists like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente. In 1983, he met Andy Warhol, who would come to be a mentor and idol. The two collaborated on a series of paintings before Warhol s death in 1987, followed by Basquiat s own untimely passing a year later.