On the 21st November, Sean Leung of QUAD studio attended LEGENDS: WARHOL/BASUAIT at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. The event is a selling exhibition that showcases the compelling works By Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Marking the two legendary masters’ first joint exhibition in China.
On the 21st November, Sean Leung of QUAD studio attended LEGENDS: WARHOL/BASUAIT at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. The event is a selling exhibition that showcases the compelling works By Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Marking the two legendary masters’ first joint exhibition in China.
| Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960 - 1988
UNTITLED (SOPHISTICATED LADY)
Executed in 1987.
signed with the artist's initials on the reverse
oilstick, charcoal and graphite on paper
66.2 by 44.5 cm. 26 by 17½ in. |
There are few artists who become true legends, and fewer legends who forge legendary friendships. Immortalized in art history is the epochal pairing between two of the late twentieth century's greatest and most influential artists, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Lasting for six years from 1982 until Warhol's death in 1987, the deep, complex and symbiotic friendship was mutually inspiring for the two artists, whose highly distinctive oeuvres have each become eternally emblazoned within the highest echelons of fine art. In honour of these two extraordinary and intertwined lives,
Andy Warhol
1928 - 1987
LOBSTER
Executed in 1982.
This work is stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol, twice by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc., and numbered VF PA26.017 on the reverse.
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
50.8 by 40.6 cm. 20 by 16 in. | |
Sotheby's is privileged to present LEGENDS: WARHOL/BASQUIAT, a selling exhibition featuring compelling works by the two artists in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Juxtaposing Warhol's polished pop aesthetic against Basquiat's singular raw expressionism, the specially curated selection powerfully captures the dynamic magic of 1980s New York.
| Andy Warhol
1928 - 1987
DOLLAR SIGN
Executed in 1981.
This work is stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. on the reverse, and numbered TOP 24.007 on the reverse of the frame.
graphite on paper
79.4 by 61.6 cm. 31¼ by 24¼ in. |
