“I feel the very moment of his brush or crayon touching the canvas. There is a burning immediacy to his ever evaporating decisions that fires the imagination ten or fifteen years on, as freshly molten as the day they were poured onto the canvas” – David Bowie on Basquiat, Modern Painters, 1996.
The Bowie-Basquiat connection is best known through the lens of Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film Basquiat, in which David played the role of the young artist’s mentor and collaborator, Andy Warhol. Air Power was acquired by Bowie the following year.
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| Jean-Michel Basquiat Air Power, 1984 Acrylic and oilstick on canvas £2.5-3.5m |
“It comes as no surprise to learn that he [Basquiat] had a not-so-hidden ambition to be a rock musician, as his work relates to rock in ways that very few other visual artists get near.” – David Bowie on Basquiat, Modern Painters, 1996.
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