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Jean-Michel Basquiat Neg #31 - Invited Attention

Name: Jean-Michel Basquiat Neg #31 - Invited Attention
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 79864

Nicholas Taylor

$1,800

American (1953)

Portfolio: Jean-Michel Basquiat Through Nicholas Taylor
Date: 1979 | 2003
Photograph, signed and numbered
Edition of AP
Image Size: 9 x 6 inches
Size: 11 x 8 in. (27.94 x 20.32 cm)
Frame Size: 18 x 14 inches

$1,800

Framed

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about Jean-Michel Basquiat Neg #31 - Invited Attention

Jean-Michel also cried a lot.

His eyes would be dripping constantly as he smiled, gritting his teeth before wiping the tears away. Jean-Michel ran the gamut on emotions. He was always striving for attention and was always very showy. He enjoyed the attention he got; he always played it up, even its negative aspects. He would go into a rage if anyone, including close friends like myself, touched any of his personal possessions. He was extremely giving and shared his affluence readily, but if you touched anything without his approval, he would fly into a short-lived rage. Although he grew to accept the commercialism of the art business, he hated his various dealers hounding him for work. Sometimes they arrived at his studio unannounced and would take what he considered unfinished work to sell in their galleries.

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About The Artist: Nicholas Taylor

Nicholas Taylor (aka Nick Taylor aka DJ High Priest) was born December 8, 1953 in Belleville, Illinois USA. Taylor moved to New York in 1977. 1n January 1979 he photographs an early series of headshots with his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. In1979 Nick joined Basquiat’s band “Gray” (guitar). Gray was a very unique sound oriented band associated with the “No Wave” scene in New York City at that time. Gray opened for...

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About The Medium: Photograph

An image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see.

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