Jean Michel Basquiat Estate Pop Art Oversized Postcard Prints Collector's Art Book

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This rare Jean Michel Basquiat first edition book of 30 oversized Pop Art postcard prints is a very rare collector's … more This rare Jean Michel Basquiat first edition book of 30 oversized Pop Art postcard prints is a very rare collector's book of 30 different famous artworks of the American artist Jean Michel Basquiat ( 1960 - 1988 ). This special book of postcard prints is published by Pomegranate with the licensed rights of the estate of Jean Michel Basquiat. It is printed on high quality heavyweight satin finish paper stock. The 30 oversized postcard prints are bound with perforated pages for individual removability, with softcover wraps.

Basquiat was born to 2 Haitian immigrants in Brooklyn New York in 1960. His early creative career was as the street graffiti artist nick named " Samo " in the late 1970's on New York City's Lower East Side. By the early 1980's with the help of his friend Andy Warhol, Basquiat began to make his emotionally charged aesthetically arresting Neo Expressionist paintings. In 1992 The Whitney Museum of American Art id a retrospective exhibition of the life works of this great American Contemporary artist and master of social commentary.

His work focused on suggestive dichotomies such as wealth vs poverty integration vs segregation, and inner vs outer experience of the human condition. He appropriated poetry, drawing, painting, & married text and image with abstraction and figuration. Basquiat's works had strong social commentary and deeper truths about the individual and power structures of racism, and criticism of colonialism and support for class struggles.

The rare 1st edition collector's book is printed in 2005, now out of print and no longer available. Each oversized postcard print page measures 7" W X 4 3/4" H. It is in brand new condition with light signs of handling, and is now being offered here for an excellent price. less