Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Charles the First 1,000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
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This 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle features Jean-Michel Basquiat's work Charles the First, created in 1982. The intense colorization and details in the artwork make this a challenging and interesting puzzle to complete.
- 1,000 pieces, box packaging
- Includes a full image reference card
- Made in China
About the artwork: Charles the First, 1982 is a tribute to jazz musician Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker was a leading figure in the development of bebop. Basquiat reference jazz musicians and recordings in over thirty of his paintings including Bird on Money (1981) and Horn Players (1983).
Charles the First, 1982
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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.
