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Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol

Collaboration Paintings

May 23–June 22, 2002
Beverly Hills

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Monster Meat, c. 1984–85 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 103 × 102 inches (261.6 × 259.1 cm)

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Monster Meat, c. 1984–85

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 103 × 102 inches (261.6 × 259.1 cm)

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, GE Short Line & Reading, c. 1984–85 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 76 × 88 inches (193 × 223.5 cm)

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, GE Short Line & Reading, c. 1984–85

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 76 × 88 inches (193 × 223.5 cm)

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Big Rat, c. 1984–85 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 77 × 119 inches (195.6 × 302.3 cm)

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Big Rat, c. 1984–85

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 77 × 119 inches (195.6 × 302.3 cm)

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ford, c. 1984–85 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 86 × 68 inches (218.4 × 172.7 cm)

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ford, c. 1984–85

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 86 × 68 inches (218.4 × 172.7 cm)

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, PE D G Two Heads, c. 1984–85 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 76 × 98 inches (193 × 248.9 cm)

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, PE D G Two Heads, c. 1984–85

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 76 × 98 inches (193 × 248.9 cm)

About

Gagosian is pleased to present a series of large collaborative paintings by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat dating from 1984–85.

At Basquiat’s dealer, Bruno Bischofberger’s, suggestion in the early 1980s, Warhol and Basquiat began a series of collaboration paintings. Warhol was inspired by Basquiat’s energy and youth and Basquiat had always idolized Warhol.

Warhol’s contribution to the collaborations can be seen in his straightforward methods of hand painting enlarged headlines, brand names and advertisements returning to the Pop paintings of the 1960s. In contrast, Basquiat responds with his trademark graffiti style-creating a dialogue between the two personalities and aesthetics of each artist.

The exhibition will include several paintings from this series including one measuring 35 feet long.

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat: Collaboration Paintings will be opening the same week as the Andy Warhol retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

There will be a fully illustrated catalogue to accompany the exhibition.

Cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Spring 2024, featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat Cover

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2024

The Spring 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available with a fresh cover design featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Lead Plate with Hole (1984).

Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat sitting inside his studio and in front of his paintings

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Los Angeles

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, met with filmmaker Tamra Davis, art dealer Larry Gagosian, and author and curator Fred Hoffman to reflect on their experiences with the artist during the 1980s in Los Angeles.

Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol at Paris Apartment Window, 1981

In Conversation
Christopher Makos and Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol’s Insiders at the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade is a group exhibition and shop takeover that feature works by Warhol and portraits of the artist by friends and collaborators including photographers Ronnie Cutrone, Michael Halsband, Christopher Makos, and Billy Name. To celebrate the occasion, Makos met with Gagosian director Jessica Beck to speak about his friendship with Warhol and the joy of the unexpected.

Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol: Silver Screen

In this video, Jessica Beck, director at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, sits down to discuss the three early paintings by Andy Warhol from 1963 featured in the exhibition Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, at Gagosian in Paris.

Alexander Calder poster for McGovern, 1972, lithograph

The Art History of Presidential Campaign Posters

Against the backdrop of the 2020 US presidential election, historian Hal Wert takes us through the artistic and political evolution of American campaign posters, from their origin in 1844 to the present. In an interview with Quarterly editor Gillian Jakab, Wert highlights an array of landmark posters and the artists who made them.

Allen Midgette in front of the Chelsea Hotel, New York, 2000. Photo: Rita Barros

I’ll Be Your Mirror: Allen Midgette

Raymond Foye speaks with the actor who impersonated Andy Warhol during the great Warhol lecture hoax in the late 1960s. The two also discuss Midgette’s earlier film career in Italy and the difficulty of performing in a Warhol film.