KI_KG_040 DOS CABEZAS _ JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT 1982 / ANTO-KÜRVO VARI 2020
19. september kell 19:59
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Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol’s friendship began when the two were formally introduced on October 4, 1982 by Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger.
Warhol was obsessed with documenting everything around him, taking over 130,000 images during his lifetime; he once said, “A picture means I know where I was every minute, that’s why I take pictures.”
During their first meeting, Warhol turned his camera on Basquiat. At the end of the session, Basquiat asked for a portrait with Warhol, who agreed and stepped into the frame. Warhol gave the double portrait to Basquiat who was so pleased that as soon as he left the meeting, he rushed straight to his studio with the still-developing print in hand to paint a rendering of the photograph.
The painting, titled Dos Cabezas (1982), ignited the friendship between the two artists, and started their journey of artistic collaboration.
An off-hand entry in Warhol’s diary reads: “Down to meet Bruno Bischofberger (cab $7.50). He brought Jean-Michel Basquiat with him. He’s the kid who used the name ‘Samo’ when he used to sit on the sidewalk in Greenwich Village and paint T-shirts...And so had lunch for them and then I took a Polaroid and he went home and within two hours a painting was back, still wet, of him and me together.”
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