Jean Michel Basquiat Drawings

[Jean Michel Basquiat]. Edited and designed by John Cheim. Introduction by Robert Storr.

Robert Miller New York & The Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat. New York. 1990. First edition. Hardback, quarto; green cloth-bound boards, with black titles and design, dust jacket. ix, 149 pages. Frontispiece and 142 colour and b&w full-page plates. English. 305 x 250mm. 1.45kg. 9780944680117. Near fine, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear, light fading to spine area of jacket, small stain to top corner of front panel of jacket.

This scarce Basquiat title was published to coincide with an exhibition of drawings from the artist's estate at the Robert Miller gallery in New York. 142 of Basquiat's vibrant, restless drawings are generously illustrated. A catalogue of the exhibition works, a bibliography and an exhibition history are included.