Jean-Michel Basquiat: A History of Prints

Jean-Michel Basquiat's printed works form one of the most compelling bodies of graphic art to emerge from the 1980s New York scene. Spanning key portfolios, collaborative editions, and independently produced prints, this selection traces the full arc of his graphic practice—from the raw anatomical studies and street-inflected mark-making of his early career to the more formally resolved compositions of his mature period. Across these works, Basquiat consistently deployed text, symbol, and image as interchangeable elements within a dynamic visual language rooted in jazz, history, identity, and resistance.