The Basquiat Bird on Money 500 Piece Book Puzzle features the artist’s iconic Bird on Money painting, a tribute to Charlie Parker, which tells the story of Basquiat’s work in greater detail. Basquiat was a musician, a jazz fan, and often painted with jazz playing in the studio. This book shaped keepsake box has a magnetic closure and looks great on the bookshelf or coffee table.
• Box: 6.5 x 8.25 x 2”, 165 x 210 x 50 mm
• Puzzle Size: 14 x 18.5”, 356 x 470 mm
• Keepsake box with magnetic closure with printed interior box liner
• Includes color puzzle insert with full puzzle image
• Puzzle greyboard contains 90% recycled paper.
Packaging contains 70% recycled paper and is made responsibly from FSC-certified material. Printed with nontoxic soy-based inks.
About 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.
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