Between 1979 and 1981, a young Jean-Michel Basquiatwas sleeping on the couch of his friend Lonny Lichtenberg, a drug dealer he nicknamed Neptune, King of the “C”. It was a dynamic period in the artist’s life, one where he helped form the band Gray, met fellow artists Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, and appeared as a guest on Glenn O’Brien’s notorious, avant-garde show, TV Party. Basquiat had long had his eyes set on fame and had just ended the…
The early Basquiat works created when he was crashing on a dealer’s couch
By Olly Telling (info@dazedgroup.com)
June 20, 2018 at 10:02AM
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