Today is Jean Michel Basquiat’s birthday. His friendship and collaborations with Andy Warhol are the stuff of legend.
At a time when Warhol was already world famous and the elder statesman of New York cool, Basquiat was a downtown talent rising rapidly from the graffiti scene. Together, they forged personal and professional partnership.
The book, Warhol on Basquiat, explores the artists’ personal and professional relationship through hundreds of never-before-published photographs of Basquiat by Warhol, along with excerpts from the legendary Andy Warhol Diaries, and rarely seen archival material and examples of their collaborative artworks.
Jean Michel Basquiat would have been 60 today and Andy would have been 82.
Warhol on Basquiat, was produced in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s estate. From TASCHEN Books or on Amazon.
