After meeting Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981, Larry Gagosian invited the artist to Los Angeles. “I had a loft on West Broadway where I’d hang a couple paintings every now and then,” Gagosian recently told ARTnews, “but I wasn’t very far along in my career as an art dealer when I met Basquiat.” In April 1982, Basquiat had his first solo show in L.A. at Gagosian’s North Altamont Drive gallery. In November of that year, the artist returned to the West Coast, living and working at Gagosian’s home in Venice Beach, on Market Street. He met Fred Hoffman, who ran New City Editions, and the two produced six editioned prints. Curated by Hoffman, and with Gagosian, this show brings together 30 of the pieces Basquiat made in California. —Jeanne Malle
The Arts Intel Report
Made on Market Street
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hollywood Africans, 1983.
When
Mar 7 – June 1, 2024
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Photo: © Whitney Museum of American Art/licensed by Scala/Art Resource, NY/courtesy of Gagosian
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