Jean Michel Basquiat
Phooey, 1982
61 Color Screenprint on Saunders Waterford 425 gsm
110 x 214.9 cm
43 1/4 x 84 5/8 in
43 1/4 x 84 5/8 in
Edition of 60 Plus 15 APs
Estate stamped and signed by the artists sisters and administrators of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat
£ 117,000.00
The Basquiat Estate recently released a print of Basquiat’s multi-panel collage, Phooey. Completed in 1982, this was produced during Basquiat’s era of experimenting with original drawings and repeated imagery. Phooey...
The Basquiat Estate recently released a print of Basquiat’s multi-panel collage, Phooey. Completed in 1982, this was produced during Basquiat’s era of experimenting with original drawings and repeated imagery. Phooey was created by collaging original drawings onto canvas in a period before moving on to photocopied versions of his illustrations. The piece features Basquiat’s iconic motifs. The crown and copyright symbol interlace patches of sporadic text and rough sketches. In the piece, the artist comments on the battle for resources, illusions of supremacy, and the role the human body plays in each.
Basquiat alludes to human necessities and resources throughout the collage. The most notable is petroleum. Adorned with the copyright symbol, Basquiat highlights the idea of ownership and entitlement that gets assigned to natural materials. Water and salt can also be seen scrawled through the images. It’s interesting to note that “hot water” and salt are included in smaller detail than water and petroleum. The idea of luxury over necessity can be attributed to how they’re sized, although the words’ repetition can show how they’ve all become integral to human life.
Provenance
The Basquiat Estate recently released a print of Basquiat’s multi-panel collage, Phooey. Completed in 1982, this was produced during Basquiat’s era of experimenting with original drawings and repeated imagery. Phooey was created by collaging original drawings onto canvas in a period before moving on to photocopied versions of his illustrations. The piece features Basquiat’s iconic motifs. The crown and copyright symbol interlace patches of sporadic text and rough sketches. In the piece, the artist comments on the battle for resources, illusions of supremacy, and the role the human body plays in each.Related artworks
