Oblong folio (258 x 350mm.), SIGNED BY BASQUIAT on the verso of the title-page with the limitation number 492/1000, portrait frontispiece of Basquiat by James van der Zee and illustrated with 32 full-page colour drawings by Basquiat. Original binding of grey cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. Fine.
A catalogue from the exhibition of Basquiat's work at the Gallery Bruno Bischofberger in Küsnacht/Zurich and at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York. Bischofberger was one of Basquiat's most enthusiastic promoters, who was responsible for introducing him to Warhol in 1982. "Typical of the new scene was the Zurich-based dealer and collector Bruno Bischofberger, who dealt Andy Warhol's work and who briefly took on the exclusive rights for Jean-Michel Basquiat. Once a month he flew Concorde to New York, where he went on whirlwind shopping sprees, buying art in previously unprecedented volumes from galleries and studios" (Emmerling, p. 9).
Oblong folio (258 x 350mm.), SIGNED BY BASQUIAT on the verso of the title-page with the limitation number 492/1000, portrait frontispiece of Basquiat by James van der Zee and illustrated with 32 full-page colour drawings by Basquiat. Original binding of grey cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. Fine.
A catalogue from the exhibition of Basquiat's work at the Gallery Bruno Bischofberger in Küsnacht/Zurich and at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York. Bischofberger was one of Basquiat's most enthusiastic promoters, who was responsible for introducing him to Warhol in 1982. "Typical of the new scene was the Zurich-based dealer and collector Bruno Bischofberger, who dealt Andy Warhol's work and who briefly took on the exclusive rights for Jean-Michel Basquiat. Once a month he flew Concorde to New York, where he went on whirlwind shopping sprees, buying art in previously unprecedented volumes from galleries and studios" (Emmerling, p. 9).