Tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat

JMB - Poet of the streets - Untamed incandescent meteor

There are artists who paint, and others who set the world ablaze with colors. Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of the latter. A poet of the streets, an incandescent meteor in the art world, he transformed each canvas into a cry—raw, vibrant, untamed.

In the tumult of New York, Basquiat forged a new language, blending crowns and skulls, graffiti and hieroglyphs, jazz and hip-hop, pain and pride. His work carried within it the legacy of a forgotten history, that of marginalized voices finally demanding the space they deserved. His painting was a struggle, a manifesto, a mirror held up to a world that preferred to look away.

Basquiat didn't need to polish his words: he projected them, impulsive and essential. He made rage dance with beauty, and in this sublime chaos, a free art was born, both fragile and indestructible.

During the retrospective dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat at the SEITA Museum in Paris ,
The curator, in a gesture as simple as it was precious, entrusted me with a box full of flyers for the exhibition.

Honored by the trust placed in me by the Curator of the Seita Museum, I saw much more than printed images: I witnessed a passing of the torch. A trust bestowed, an invitation to keep the flame alive.

Thanks to these fragments of art, I will be able to compose a tribute,
a vibrant collage for someone who painted as naturally as breathing, as naturally as fighting.
as if we exist against the current of the world.

🔹 Technical specifications:

📏 Size:100x100 cm on canvas

💰 Price:€7,900

🎨 Technique:Collage-textures-sand-pigments from Provence

🖌 Materials:Sand and natural pigments enhanced with gold

🏷 Value rating:Akoun - Drouot Paris - Artprice → €10,500

📜 Certificate of authenticity provided

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✨A vibrant and luminous work

A tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat , an incandescent meteor, and Antoni Tàpies, an alchemist of matter:
They both opened the space where my creation caught fire.
They were the shock, the awakening, the first breath of my artistic enthusiasm.

Through a few works, I will continue to extend their echo, to honor their voices
and to rekindle, a little more, the freedom they have given to art.

The United States retains its leading position in global art auction sales—a position largely bolstered by the impact of Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 2024, the post-war and contemporary art market saw American auctions account for nearly 48% of total sales.
Works signed by Basquiat, sold for record amounts, are among the most expensive lots sold in the United States each year, reinforcing the attraction of international collectors to New York and affirming American influence on the market.

Gone too soon, yet they remain everywhere. Their crowns have never crumbled. They still shine on walls, in museums, in the minds of those who refuse to be silenced. Jean-Michel Basquiat is not a memory: he is a pulse. A spark that never ceases to ignite.

And as long as we listen to the heartbeat of the city, we will hear its own.

TRIBUTE

To welcome their light, and to extend their voice,
— It is to offer, in this moment, the memory of kings —
Because Basquiat and Tàpies remain in my gestures,
And their fiery breath gives birth to happiness.

I transform fragments into constellations of art,
I embrace their audacity and make it my starting point.
May my tribute rise above the years,
Witnesses to these geniuses whom I wish to crown.

Each piece of glued-together fragment, each heartbeat,
I proclaim my respect for these victorious masters.
And in the ink of time, their star is bound together,
To this heartfelt tribute delivered today.

🖋 Personalized dedication upon request

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