Extended through January 11, 2025
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Artwork, front to back: © Fondazione Torlonia; © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: Thomas Lannes
Installation view with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (1982)
Artwork © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: Thomas Lannes
Installation view
Artwork, front to back: © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York; © Fondazione Torlonia. Photo: Thomas Lannes
Installation view
Artwork, left to right: © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York; © Fondazione Torlonia. Photo: Thomas Lannes
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled, 1982
Acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 94 ⅞ × 165 ¼ inches (241 × 419.7 cm)
© Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: Stefan Altenburger
Venus, morning star, sweet potato, I have the silver and you have the gold.
—Jean-Michel Basquiat
Basquiat saw the world differently. He had a great grasp of the history of art and visual culture and was brilliant at bringing the past to life in his paintings. His work reminds us of the common chords and resonances of beauty and identity throughout art history. Seeing his painting in dialogue with this ancient Venus sculpture reminds us of the enduring energy and sophistication of his work.
—Larry Gagosian
Gagosian is pleased to announce Venus, a pairing of two rarely seen masterpieces from different millennia: Untitled (1982), a significant painting from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s acclaimed Modena series, is shown in dialogue with an Imperial Roman sculpture of the goddess Venus loaned from the Torlonia Collection in Rome, the world’s largest private collection of Roman art. This is Gagosian’s eleventh exhibition dedicated to Basquiat and demonstrates the gallery’s ongoing commitment to the artist’s legacy.
Highlighting how Venus has been a muse across centuries, the exhibition is on view from October 17 at Gagosian’s gallery at 9 rue de Castiglione and offers an uncommon gallery setting for classical and contemporary masterworks in central Paris.
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Jessica Beck addresses Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 trip to Italy, considering the effects of the country’s art and history on the young painter’s process and iconography. She focuses in particular on the painting Untitled (1982).
Gagosian director Jessica Beck speaks with Lee Mergner, author and publisher of JazzTimes, about Basquiat’s lifelong engagement with jazz on the occasion of “Bebop Revolution: JLCO with Wynton Marsalis,” two nights celebrating bebop and the genre’s influence on the painter at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York.
Vincent Gardner, trombonist, composer, and arranger in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, speaks about the bebop genre and Jean-Michel Basquiat with the Quarterly’s Alison McDonald on the occasion of “Bebop Revolution: JLCO with Wynton Marsalis,” two nights celebrating bebop at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York.
Join Gagosian for a conversation between director, producer, and writer Sophia Heriveaux and actor, director, and writer Roger Guenveur Smith inside the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street, at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. Heriveaux and Guenveur Smith both share a personal connection to Basquiat: Heriveaux is the artist’s niece and Guenveur Smith was one of his friends and collaborators. The pair discuss Basquiat’s work and legacy, as well as his lasting impact on contemporary art and culture.
The Spring 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available with a fresh cover design featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Lead Plate with Hole (1984).
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, met with filmmaker Tamra Davis, art dealer Larry Gagosian, and author and curator Fred Hoffman to reflect on their experiences with the artist during the 1980s in Los Angeles.
Megan N. Liberty explores artists’ engagement with notebooks and diaries, thinking through the various meanings that arise when these private ledgers become public.
Jenny Saville reveals the process behind her new self-portrait, painted in response to Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles.
The Spring 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Red Pot with Lute Player #2 by Jonas Wood on its cover.
Fred Hoffman looks back on the creation of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Tuxedo (1983), examining the work’s significance in relation to identity and the hip-hop culture of the 1980s.
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (L.A. Painting) (1982) was a game changer. Text by Derek Blasberg.
