In that case, I present to you Lieuwe van Gogh. The great-great grandnephew of Vincent van Gogh. The $1.5 million pre-orders have all been sold. The remaining pre-orders are priced at $2 million, subject to availability of course.


 

Yes, we're in a better position than many. We have internet and stuff. But just because there's nearly always someone worse off than yourself, or because we're not in a position to enact economic or social change, that shouldn't disqualify us from being able to express our opinions on tax collection, art foundations, how the wealthy in society spend their money. We can do all that and still enjoy the art.

I don't think it's healthy to just enjoy the art or to be detached from everything else that comes with the art, it's creation, reproduction, sale, resale, etc. History has many examples of the lower classes getting pissed off with how the wealthy or better off spend their time and money. So it's good to talk about these things.

People can buy what they like, but we get to talk about it. I can say "great image" or "nice buy" and also have an opinion on the price paid and where that money's going. And it's good to look up, down, side to side. A world perspective.

It's your money, your buying power, but there's a moral gulf between a $100 print and a $50,000 print. I don't have to deal with having a 50K piece of paper on my wall, but others will.

My initial reaction was what a bunch of money grabbing bummers but realistically why shouldn't they do what they want? It seems reasonable to sell something at what is deemed to be market value and obviously a number of people thought it was just that. I think its a crazy amount of money but if it was half the price, the chances are, it would have been the same people that bought one.

Personally, this print wouldn't appeal to me even if i did have the money to burn. But, in a matter of fact kind of way there isn't actually much difference between an artist releasing a print posthumously and releasing it whilst they are alive. Ultimately the print is still a copy of an original. The one thing missing is his signature. Its not as though Basquiat would have pulled the screens himself. We will never know whether or not he would have wanted this print released or not - and from what i understand the printers usually have a say in choosing the print in any case.....

love Basquiat <3

£50.00!

Basquiat is Robin and Warhol Batman?

The design works. Are you doing different background colors?

Not massively in the know but my understanding is a giclee/ink jet print would be considerably cheaper than a screen print that would have to be manufactured and produced,also the more layers more cost.

Looks great!

Good stuff

This will be a short run either 25 or 50 depending on cost. I will compare the best price for 
this run and go with that.

WORDS ARE ALL WE HAVE
PAINTINGS BY JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
May 2 - June 11, 2016

www.nahmadcontemporary.com/exhibitions/words-are-all-we-have

NEW YORK - Nahmad Contemporary is pleased to announce its first exhibition dedicated solely to Jean-Michel Basquiat, organized by guest curator and preeminent Basquiat scholar Dr. Dieter Buchhart. Centering on the critical function of language in the work of Basquiat, this comprehensive exhibition will illuminate the artist’s pioneering incorporation of literary and musical elements into his work. Most often identified with both the formal and stylistic aspects of Neo-Expressionism, Basquiat’s linguistically complex paintings place him within the trajectory of the Beat Generation writers and the evolution of jazz and hip-hop.

Combining the ‘cut-up’ style employed by poet William Burroughs, as well as the sampling techniques heralded by early rappers, such as Fab 5 Freddy, Basquiat created works that were both profoundly original and simultaneously rooted in a rich linguistic history. Taking advantage of the innate malleability of words, Basquiat created a form of painted hip-hop, termed “Eye-rap” by art historian Robert Storr – a unique visual language that bears “startling visual syncopation.”

Words are All We Have will exhibit some of the most seminal works produced by Basquiat, all of which feature combinations of words, signs and pictograms. The exhibition will demonstrate the way in which image and text are authentically amalgamated and as a result dissolve the boundary between visual and verbal arts. Basquiat was able to reconceptualize pre-existing pictorial traditions through his unprecedented approach to image and word, and redefinition of the relationship therein, that remain today poignant echoes of contemporary existence.

In addition, the exhibition will display paintings for which elements of select notebooks featured in the recent Brooklyn Museum exhibition served as studies, experiments and inspirations. The abounding textual references captured in the hand-written notes resonate throughout his mature paintings that will be exhibited, and ultimately demonstrate the culmination of the process by which Basquiat captured an outstanding poetic, visual and musical synthesis.

Words are All We Have is curated by Dr. Dieter Buchhart, who has organized important Basquiat exhibitions at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Brooklyn Museum. He has also curated shows on artists such as Keith Haring, Edvard Munch, Otto Dix and George Braque at prestigious institutions such as the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Albertina in Vienna, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

To accompany the exhibition, Nahmad Contemporary will publish a catalogue in collaboration with world-renowned publisher, Hatje Cantz, which will include new scholarship on Basquiat’s work by the leading experts on the artist, including Dieter Buchhart, Christian Campbell, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Carlo McCormick, Jordana Moore Saggese, and Greg Tate.

I want to see WIP shots of Basquiat.

Who buys these? Who? Who? Who? Who?