Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Mechanical Pencil
Details
The Basquiat Bird on Money Mechanical Pencil features Basquiat’s iconic Bird on Money artwork and is packaged in a sturdy, giftable, windowed reusable box. It uses a 2mm pencil lead which is standard for mechanical pencils. The pencil lead and erasers are both refillable (not included with the pencil).
• Box Size: 1.77 x 6.92 x 0.83”, 45 x 176 x 21 mm
• Pencil Size: 0.45 x 5.37”, 11 x 136 mm
• Refillable components–pencil lead & eraser
• 2.0 x 90 mm HB refillable pencil lead
• Replaceable eraser
Jean-Michel Basquiat
A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. “I don’t think about art while I work,” he once said. “I think about life.” Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage—his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent—and a convergence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians. Often associated with Neo-expressionism, Basquiat received massive acclaim in only a few short years, showing alongside artists like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente. In 1983, he met Andy Warhol, who would come to be a mentor and idol. The two collaborated on a series of paintings before Warhol’s death in 1987, followed by Basquiat’s own untimely passing a year later.
