Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Beat Bop Tote
Details
Our oversized tote bag is designed to be durable for your daily needs.The front and back are adorned with Basquiat's album cover artwork Beat Bop.
- 100% heavy duck canvas in black
- Lined with 100% cotton
- Cotton webbing handles
- 18x17 inches (45.7x43.2 cm)
- Made in China
About the artwork: One of Jean-Michel Basquiat's most coveted works is from the record album artwork of the early hip-hop record Beat Bop that JMB produced and self-financed. Released under his own Tartown record label, the original 500 vinyl pressings are among the most valuable on the market today.
Image: Beat Bop, 1983
© Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Licensed by Artestar, New York
Jean-Michel Basquiat
A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. “I don’t think about art while I work,” he once said. “I think about life.” Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage—his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent—and a convergence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians. Often associated with Neo-expressionism, Basquiat received massive acclaim in only a few short years, showing alongside artists like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente. In 1983, he met Andy Warhol, who would come to be a mentor and idol. The two collaborated on a series of paintings before Warhol’s death in 1987, followed by Basquiat’s own untimely passing a year later.
