Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Toxic Long-Sleeve T-Shirt
Details
This is a premium medium weight long-sleeve shirt. The all-over print featured is Basquiat's artwork Toxic.
- 100% medium weight cotton jersey
- Slightly oversized fit, Unisex, Adult size XS-XL
- Ribbed neck and sleeve hem
- Relaxed crew neck
- Made in Portugal
- Machine wash cold, inside-out and tumble dry low to preserve color
About the artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Toxic is a portrait of his friend, the New York artist and DJ Torrick Ablack (a.k.a. Toxic) who collaborated with him on music projects and worked as his occasional studio assistant. This portrait captures Toxic in a signature hat of the era.
Image: Toxic, 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.
