Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat boxing pictorial, 1985.
Rare vintage 1985 large sized magazine advertisement for the historic Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat collaborations show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery. An incredibly historic Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol collectible which is well-suited for framing.

Offset print on newspaper stock.
Measures: 11 x 17 inches.
Minor signs of handling; otherwise good overall vintage condition.
Photography by Michael Halsband.
Unsigned.

History:
Tony Shafrazi, November 2015: "My good friend, the Swiss gallerist Bruno Bischofberger, had worked with Andy Warhol since the mid 1960s. He got to know Jean-Michel’s paintings and started working with him in 1982 or ’83. There had been a suggestion of a collaboration between Warhol, Basquiat, and Francesco Clemente. Then, Jean-Michel and Andy, very enthusiastically and seriously, went on to undertake a whole processes of painting collaboratively at Warhol’s Factory for a year to a year and half, making somewhere between 70 and 80 large paintings that represented an extraordinary—and very rare in history—body of work.

Their joint body of work represented a whole year and half of collaboration and production. It was not an overnight thing. The two artists worked together, one painting over the other, back and forth, and I immediately thought of two people sparring and boxing together, which is how I hit upon the idea of a boxing theme for the show’s advertisement."

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