that would be a tough sell for me, I have never seen JMB use a nose like that...

Plus I would imagine you would add a few 00's to the price if it were real...

No wetting here

is it pretty impossible to find a basquiat now? are most in private collections?

the pic on ebay looks like they copied this.


i would love this , pricey but worth it.

Whoa!
Respect man

These are brilliant. Have you posted them on the KR board? I'm sure they would definitely appreciate them there as well.

romanywg... those are the coolest pieces ever!!!

what an amazing job, mucho respect on those, very very impressive....

I would totally buy those in a second!!! a big +1 from me

yeh Romanywg, those are amazing very beautifull,
JMB is on my wish list, i have been saving to buy a piece by him,
but life keeps me from saving enough, i realy like the pieces you have created very nice,
a lot better than the scribble on ebay,
the only reason my pants got wet was through pissing them laughing.

Im not sure where to post this, but where can you buy a Jean-Michel Basquiat print. I want something signed and numbered. Ive looked on ebay for a long long time, and have never seen one. I cant figure out why none ever come up. Any help from the forum is appreciated. thanks!

Basquiat prints never come up on Ebay because ebay is a terrible place for people to sell expensive art- they usually lose 20-50% of what they would get through a traditional auction house or gallery. Most good art in my experience is simply not available on ebay. You are going to need to call galleries, which is easy enough. I would recommend first becoming familiar with what's out there are know what you want. When you know what you want, go to artnet.com and search for basquiat. Here's what I just got by doing that:

www.artnet.com/ag/fulltextsearch.asp?searchstring=basquiat

there are 50 galleries listed. Look through them and start calling to discuss what they have and what you're interested in. Comparison shop for best results. Good luck!

For those who are interested in acquiring a Basquiat print, I have spotted there are two coming up in a Christies auction on 18th July 2007. They are 'cheap' by comparison with several millions of quid for an original.

These prints are part of a set of 4 released by his Estate after his death and are of images which have not otherwise been released.

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Lot details After Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

Untitled (Head)
screenprint in colours, 1983/2001, on wove paper, signed in pencil on the reverse by the artist's father, numbered 71/85, published by the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2001, the full sheet, in very good condition,

Estimate: 4,000 - 6,000 British pounds

PRINTS & MULTIPLES Sale 5244
18 Jul 2007
London, South Kensington



Lot details After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Untitled (Ernok)
screenprint in colours, 1983/2001, on wove paper, signed in pencil on the reverse by the artist's father, numbered 71/85, published by the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2001, the full sheet, in very good condition, framed
L., S. 1015


4,000 - 6,000 British pounds
PRINTS & MULTIPLES Sale 5244
18 Jul 2007
London, South Kensington

Info from here:
www.christies.com/LotFinder/lfsearch/SearchResults.aspx?entry=basquiat

Images can be seen here:
www.f2gallery.com/artists/basquiat/index.html

Before anyone asks, I am not the person selling the ones above. I am just interested in his work as he was the first artist to bridge street to studio, and his work is seriously strong at the moment and can only go up - its just the prints seem a good way of having the images which are worth millions otherwise.

Hope you have found it interesting.

Max £35

They are also complete shit. They were published about 6 years ago, J-M Basquiat died in 1988, thus they are little more than posters, albeit rather attractive ones. There is nothing about them that has anything to do with Basquiat other than they are after his designs, who cares if the estate authorised them, it's basically a callous way for them to trade on his name and make more $$$. Basquiat made a handful of Authentic prints in his lifetime, as far as I can remember it's about 20 (and that includes the anatomy portfolio of 18), the best one called back of the neck recently made $180,000 in New York, a long way from the crap coming up at CSK!

I hear what you say, but I disagree:

1. they are screenprints and not posters (I fully admit pulled after JMB's death and not by him)

2. they are of images created by HIM, and more importantly, of images which have not otherwise ever been released since the Estate have kept the originals.

Whilst I see the point you make, I disagree. See here where he is very much alive standing next to one of the original images (Ernok) which has now been made available in screenprint form after his death:

ritmos-urbanos.blogspot.com/2007/04/todos-barcelona.html

We will have to agree to differ then!