Basquiat (Album Cover for The OFFS)

Jean-Michel Basquiat - 25th Anniversary Limited Edition Series

The Limited Edition vinyl albums come in red , clear and white, framed in white wood with clear plexiglass front and back. Included in the back frame is the Certificate of Authenticity and a short story about Basquiat, The OFFS and Andy Warhol's confluence in New York City in the mid 80s. Album credits list Cover by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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• Title: OFFS VINYL
• Size: 17.5 x 26.5
• Price: $1000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist who achieved fame in the late 1970's and early 1980's, credited with bringing graffiti to the fine art world of painting alongside Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf. Though Basquiat never finished high school, he grew up visiting the Brooklyn Museum of Art and took an interest in art from a young age.

His early work consisted of tagging in downtown New York with his friend Al Diaz under the pseudonym SAMO ©. Basquiat later went on to create numerous collaborations with Pop Art icon Andy Warhol. He is considered part of the Neo-Expressionist movement alongside Julian Schnabel and David Salle, with his politicized canvases blending African imagery and symbolism with the movement’s characteristic gestural marks and bright patches of color. Born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat spent his life working in New York until his death from a drug overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27.

Note: Sotheby's Original Art Sale listing includes confirmation of Certificate of Authenticity issued by the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Click here.