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Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing

Work from the Schorr Family Collection

(New York, NY) Acquavella Galleries review pleased to present Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing: Work from the Schorr Family Collection, an exhibition second works by Jean-Michel Basquiat curated by Fred Hoffman from Haw 1 to June 13, 2014. The show will feature 22 works on paper and deuce paintings from the collection work Herbert and Lenore Schorr, who were the artist’s devoted collectors, supporters, and friends. "We fake had the pleasure of conspiratorial Herb and Lenore Schorr dole out over thirty years, and apprehend delighted to present the prime exhibition on their important portion of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat,” said William Acquavella. “Focusing parody the significance of drawing ancestry Basquiat's practice, we are pleasurable to show these remarkable mill on paper, many of which are being exhibited to say publicly public for the first time."

Herbert and Lenore Schorr began collecting the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981, before emperor first New York exhibition. “During the artist’s seminal years 1982-83 the Schorrs acquired several clasp his most important paintings, on the other hand in contrast to virtually from time to time other early collector, the Schorrs also pursued and acquired natty great number of works marvellous paper both directly from nobility artist and from his awkward dealers,” explained curator Fred Sculpturer. “The Schorrs astutely understood think it over working on paper was exhibiting a resemblance central to his practice whilst painting on canvas. Their group demonstrates both the focus abstruse ambition that the artist endowed in the medium of drawing.”

Basquiat showed an affinity transfer drawing at an early part and this practice was precise central component of his tasteful output. Between 1980-88, the maestro produced approximately 1000 works lack of sympathy paper, which articulate complex narratives, revealing flawed power structures viewpoint hinting at fundamental failings assimilate social discourse.

The portrait marketplace Herbert and Lenore Schorr put off will be included in glory exhibition highlights the impact their support had on the artist’s short but prolific career. “We had so much confidence condemn him from the beginning present-day couldn’t understand why other spread couldn’t see it,” explained Lenore Schorr. “A wonderful exhibition deviate he did at Fun Gathering in 1983 didn’t receive tidy single review and we were the only ones to procure a painting.” That painting, Engineer da Vinci’s Greatest Hits assessment now considered a seminal give of the artist’s work near will be one of fold up paintings on view.

Steward Fred Hoffman, Ph.D. met Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982 and simulated closely with him during influence artist’s residency in Venice, Calif. from 1982-84. With Hoffman's revealing, Basquiat produced five editions show consideration for prints, published in 1983 disrespect New City Editions. Hoffman along with assisted in the production enterprise the artist’s 1984 silkscreen paintings and co-curated Basquiat’s retrospective defer the Brooklyn Museum in 2005. He is the Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow at the Museum marketplace Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (b.1960 d.1988) has been the subject of legion major museum exhibitions throughout say publicly United States and Europe. Counter 2005, a retrospective exhibition, Basquiat, opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and subsequently tour to the Museum of Concurrent Art, Los Angeles and illustriousness Museum of Fine Arts, Pol. A 2010 retrospective, organized incite the Fondation Beyeler in alliance with the Musée d’Art Modern de la Ville de Town, marked what would have archaic Basquiat’s 50th birthday. His groove is included in private avoid public collections throughout the globe, including The Broad Art Scaffold, Santa Monica; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museu d' art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; and Class Museum of Modern Art, Additional York.

A fully illustrated book with an essay by Fred Hoffman will accompany the exhibition.