Kenny Scharf drawing 1998 (book drawing):
1990's Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf exhibition catalogue featuring a signed & inscribed Kenny Scharf drawing. Further background:
In 1997, parallel to the Keith Haring retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York, Lio Malca produced the show 'In Your Face'. This rare show featuring all 3 artists in one venue, took place in a townhouse across from the museum, including works of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf. Malca inaugurated, with these 3 artists, what would become his specialty for the next decade and beyond. Hand-signed & inscribed by Kenny Scharf in black marker on the interior alongside a classic, hand-drawn Scharf character.
Medium: Softcover exhibition catalogue with a signed & inscribed, 1998 hand-drawing by Kenny Scharf (interior first page).
80 pages.
Year: 1997 (drawing dated 1998 by Scharf).
Dimensions: 11.5 × 9.75 inches.
Condition: Well-preserved signature and drawing. Small tear to reverse-side cover. Minor signs of handling. Good overall vintage condition.
More on Kenny Scharf:
Colorful, cartoonish faces and imagined creatures populate Kenny Scharf’s fantastical murals, paintings, sculptures, and installations. On Scharf’s canvases, these figures careen against one another, as well as galactic landscapes and still-life elements such as vases. The artist received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts. He found success in New York’s 1980s East Village art scene alongside Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, with whom he shared a mentor—Andy Warhol. Scharf has exhibited in New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Milan, and Zürich. His work belongs in the collections of The Bass, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others.
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