Invitation card for Basquiat's 1985 show at the Boone/Werner Gallery in NYC.
NY: Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, 1985. Nicely printed in silver and mustard on textured gray stock. Fine (5" x 7"). More
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Invitation card for Basquiat's 1987 "Drawings" show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in NYC.
NY: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1987. The other side prints an announcement for a show by Simon Linke. Printed in white, gray, and brown on slick stock. Fine (ca. 8.5" x 6"). A card from during Basquiat's lifetime. More
Jean Michel Basquiat.
NY: Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, 1985. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Essay by Robert Ferris Thompson. Catalog from Basquiat's 1985 show at the Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery. Nicely illustrated throughout with full-page color plates. Fine. More
Jean Michel Basquiat: Paintings.
Tokyo: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1985. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Exhibition catalog printing full-page color reproductions of Basquiat's work. Lovely frontis photograph of Basquiat by Yoshitaka Uchida. One of only 300 hardbound copies (the entire cloth edition). As new. The cloth edition is quite scarce, especially in this..... More
Vintage color Polaroid of Basquiat sleeping on a couch taken by his last girlfriend Kelle Inman.
No place: Privately published, ca. 1987-1988. Kelle caught Basquiat in the most innocent and vulnerable of all positions, sleeping. The image captures Basquiat asleep on his side, showing primarily his head and face, shoulders, and naked torso down to his waist. An intimate photo by Kelle who was with Basquiat..... More
Collaborations: Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol.
Tokyo: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1986. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Exhibition catalog illustrated in color throughout. Fine. More
Warhol-Basquiat Collaborations.
Paris: Didier Imbert Fine Art, 1989. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Exhibition catalog featuring 13 color plates each of which takes up almost 2 pages, with 3 gate-folds. One photographic plate of the artists. Introductory essays by Gregoire Muller and Keith Haring. Text in French and English. Minor yellowing to edges..... More
Announcement postcard from the Annina Nosei Gallery for the 1982 "Anatomy" portfolio of Basquiat's work.
NY: Annina Nosei, 1982. The front of the card features one of the works from the portfolio printed in gray and black on off-white stock. Nosei was Basquiat's first dealer who mounted his first solo US exhibition the same year that she published this, his first print portfolio. When Basquiat's..... More
Invitation card for the 1987 ''Logos'' group show at the Anne Plumb Gallery in NYC.
NY: Anne Plumb Gallery, 1987. Organized by Steven Harvey, the show ran from Dec. 19th, 1987 to Jan. 23rd, 1988 and included work by Basquiat, Kounellis, Broodthaers, Nauman and Byars. Printed in black on gray stock. Stamped and sent through the mail. Near fine. More
Painting Now.
Nagoya: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1984. 4to. Catalog from this group show including Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, and others. This copy is signed twice by Basquiat---once on the front free endpaper dated 1986, and again above one of his plates in the book where he added the date and "Denis,"..... More
Postcard invitation announcing Basquiat's December 1988 show at the Annina Nosei Gallery in NYC.
NY: Annina Nosei, 1988. Printed in white against a funereal black background. This show took place just a few months after Basquiat's death and a month after his memorial service. Nosei was Basquiat's first dealer. She provided him with studio space in her basement, published his first print portfolio, and..... More
Print cut from a contact sheet showing a naked woman crouched on a mattress playing tabla drums.
No place: Privately published by Elmer Batters, ca. 1961. There are LP record covers around the mattress and on the floor, and part of the model's body can be seen reflected in a large mirror on the wall. Elmer Batters was an early master of fetish photography. Fine (ca. 2.5"..... More
Beatnik Beard.
No place: no publisher, no date [ca. 1960]. A beatnik beard enclosed in a plastic bag with cardboard header with an illustration of a beatnik and the words: "Self Adhering! Dig That Beard! Crazy Man!" Very good. More
Beatnik Broach.
No place: no publisher, no date [ca. 1960]. On a card printing "Hello I Am a Beatnik Pin---Wear Me and Be the Life of the Party" is mounted a brushed metal broach of a hirsute, googly-eyed beatnik playing guitar. Very good. Beatnik kitch at its absolute kitschiest. More
Genuine Beatnik Beard.
Brooklyn, NY: L. I. Mask Co., no date [ca. 1960]. A beatnik beard enclosed in a plastic bag and mounted on a piece of card stock with directions for use. "Fun For All All For Fun." Very good. More
Original photograph of a beatnik woman seductively straddling a conga drum.
No place: no publisher, ca. 1960. A staged photo of a half-naked "beatnik" temptress straddling a conga drum that she's playing as she looks upward. A guitar leans against the wall next to her. Fine (ca. 8" x 10"). More
Photo taken to illustrate an article on "the beatnik outlook on art".
No place: no publisher, 1960. The photo shows three woman at an unidentified "Art Institute." They are standing in front of a huge abstract painting, one of them is holding bongos, the other is holding their baby, the third is standing by an easel. From the info on the back..... More
Untitled offset poster (a.k.a. Retard Para) featuring four variant images of a hand holding a transistor radio with nonsense text at the bottom.
n.p.: Privately published, 1965. Among the images is one of Bob Dylan. Printed in black on yellow stock. (Support the Revolution, p. 172.) Fine (21" x 17"). More
Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken 1961-1976.
Pasadena: Armory Center for the Arts, 2011. Nicely designed catalog and 38 unbound plates (some in color) reproducing works by these artists enclosed in a cardboard box with printed label. First edition. Published on the occasion of an exhibition exploring the work of these two influential Southern California artists. As..... More
She: Works by Wallace Berman & Richard Prince.
LA: Michael Kohn, [2009]. Oblong 4to. Hardbound in illustrated boards. First edition. Profusely illustrated in color throughout. Published to coincide with an exhibition. As new. More
Advertisement for '60s rock band Pacific Gas and Electric by an unknown artist who blatantly stole Berman's signature motif of hands holding transistor radios.
n.p.: Columbia Records, 1970. A quarto page neatly excised from Billboard magazine. The advertisement utilizes a disturbing still from D.W. Griffith's film "The Birth of a Nation." At the bottom the anonymous artist placed 5 handheld transistor radios identical to Berman's and in each he put a photo of one..... More
Announcement card for the Wallace Berman Retrospective at the University Art Museum in Berkeley, 1979.
Berkeley: Privately published, 1979. Features an illustration of one of his verifaxes. Two words underlined in red ink on verso, imperceptible pin hole to two corners, else fine. More
A bookmark by Wallace Berman.
No place: Wallace Berman, ca. 1954. Charming bookmark from Wallace Berman the top half of which is devoted to a photo of his baby son Tosh with mom's hand laid upon his head. Along the left edge of the bottom half this statement is printed letterpress in red ink: "And..... More
Handmade exhibition announcement by Wallace Berman.
Topanga: Privately published by Wallace Berman, ca. 1965. Features a small photo collage by Berman of a runner crossing the finish line with his hands raised in victory (same image that appeared on the cover of Caterpillar magazine). Above is printed: "Exhibition Sunday Feb. 26 2-5 pm 1440 N. Topanga..... More