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1981 Kyu-Baik Hwang (b. 1932) Mezzotint, “Target,” AP

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March 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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1990 Wendy Thon (b. 1951) Etching and Aquatint, “Meteors,” 32/125

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May 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Warrior
acrylic on board
1982
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
NYC, USA

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Part of the inspiration for Warrior seems to have been Ogun, the sword-wielding warrior deity of the Yoruba people of West Africa. Their beliefs had been transported to the Caribbean as a result of the transatlantic slave trade. The subject’s scarified eyes and clenched jaw add to a sense of talismanic power. In his long thin toes, some also see a resemblance to nkisi nkondi idols from the Congo, into which long thin nails were hammered. Basquiat’s mother and father separated when he was seven and he ended up living with the latter. Gerald’s strict parenting, however, saw the teenage Jean-Michel rebel — to the extent of quitting school and running away from home. In 1977, he started spray-painting graffiti on derelict buildings in New York’s Lower East Side and SoHo, a practice he would continue until around 1980, when his career really took off. Though executed on a wooden panel rather than a public wall, Warrior shares a number of characteristics with Basquiat’s old street works, rawness and spontaneity being chief among them. The wildly fashioned background was achieved with gestural brushwork in patches of yellow and blue. As for the subject, Basquiat marked out his silhouette in spray paint and oil stick — before filling in the body with harried layers of acrylic. There’s no perspectival logic to speak of, or spatial recession. Figure and ground seem meshed together — bursting with the energy of a warrior. Basquiat painted this huge work, measuring 183 by 122 cm, while installed in a studio in the basement of Annina Nosei’s gallery in SoHo (she had become his primary dealer in 1981). He worked there as an artist in residence, and there are numerous stories of Nosei taking collectors downstairs to snap up paintings before they were even dry.
May 2, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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1988 Dan May (b. 1955) Serigraph, “Nude and Dog” 127/175

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November 29, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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1995 Dan May (b. 1955) Untitled Serigraphic Monoprint

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November 17, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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1987 Dan May (b. 1955) Serigraph, “Nude and Cat” 89/250

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November 29, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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1996 Dan May (b. 1955) Serigraph, “The Cookies are Ready,” 6/50

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November 17, 2024 at 9:53 PM