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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Dealer Info | 1 copy 30% discount | 2+ cps. 40% discount |
Editor | Iris Hasler, Sam Keller |
Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
Year | 2023 |
Cover | swiss bound |
Language | German |
ISBN | 978-3-7757-5508-5 |
Pages | 126 |
Weight | 670 g |
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Contributors | Dieter Buchhart, Fiona Hesse, Michiko Kono et al. |
Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel |
Article ID | art-59847 |
Numerous publications and exhibitions have examined Jean-Michel Basquiat’s extensive oeuvre that consists of more than 3000 works.
This catalogue, however, focuses on eight paintings: In the summer of 1982, Basquiat traveled to Modena, Italy, for one of his first solo exhibitions in Europe at the gallery of Emilio Mazzoli. Within just a few days, he painted a group of large-format paintings that surpassed his previous work not only in terms of their scale. Each at least two by four meters in size, they mark his transition from graffiti spraying in the streets of Manhattan to painting on canvas. At the same time, they reflect an artist coming into his own. The paintings―including masterpieces that today are considered pivotal and among the most outstanding of his oeuvre―have never been shown together.
This catalogue revisits this crucial moment of Basquiat’s career some 40 years ago and reunites them for the first time.