Basquiat : The Modena Paintings Teenage Fiction and The Wind Rises

and The Wind Rises

From sail boats to super yachts

the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO

seductive numbers

and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes

Basquiat : The Modena Paintings Teenage Fiction and The Wind RisesThe Show that never Was Numerous publications and exhibitions have examined Jean Michel Basquiat's extensive oeuvre that consists of more than 3000 works, this catalogue though focuses on eight paintings only: In the summer of 1982, Basquiat traveled to Modena, Italy, for one of his first solo exhibitions in Europe at the gallery of Emilio Mazzoli. Within just a few days, he painted a group of large format paintings that surpassed his previous work