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The Skateroom x Jean-Michel Basquiat - Skateboard Triptych - La Hara (1981)

Description

Bringing together tradition and contemporary culture, this Jean-Michel Basquiat Skateboard Triptych features a reproduction of Basquiat's work La Hara (1981). The artwork, which depicts a skeletal police officer, was sold for $35m at Christie's in 2017. The masterpiece was created in 1981, at a pivotal moment when he transitioned from street artist to an art world sensation. He used both acrylic and oilstick on wood panel, and it is one of the few works of white men painted by Basquiat. The artwork depicts a menacing white skeletal figure (a police officer) wearing a peaked cap against a red background.

This exclusive and limited edition set of three skate decks made in collaboration between The Skateroom and The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat mixes the energies of underground culture and legendary artists. The Skateroom is a platform for promoting, selling and producing art on skateboards that supports youth-empowering organizations. More details on Jean-Michel Basquiat – Skateboard Triptych - La Hara (1981):

Details

  • Dimensions (Individual Decks): 31″ H x 8″ W
  • Material: 7-ply Canadian Maple Wood
  • Includes printed Basquiat signature on top
  • Each deck comes with a fixture – ready to be mounted on your wall
  • Wheels and trucks are not included
  • © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Basquiat

The artist

Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the best known artists of his generation and is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His career in art spanned the late 1970s through the 1980s until his death in 1988, at the age of 27. Basquiat works are edgy and raw, and through a bold sense of color and composition, he maintains a fine balance between seemingly contradictory forces such as control and spontaneity, menace and wit, urban imagery and primitivism. The Basquiat brand embodies the values and aspirations of young, international urban culture.
The conjunction of various media is an integral element of Basquiat's art. His paintings are typically covered with text and codes of all kinds: words, letters, numerals, pictograms, logos, map symbols, diagrams and more, and featured multi-panel paintings and individual canvases with exposed stretcher bars, the surface dense with writing, collage and imagery.
Photo Credits: Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982 - Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation

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