LOS ANGELES In the fall of 1982, Jean-Michel Basquiat was living at art dealer Larry Gagosian s Venice Beach home, making swarms of new paintings in his private wing of the house. Gagosian had been "electrified" by the 21-year-old artist s work at New York s Annina Nosei Gallery about a year earlier. So he and Nosei collaborated on Basquiat s first West Coast exhibition, at Larry Gagosian Gallery, in the spring of 1982 after which Gagosian invited the artist to move into his Market Street house so he could create new paintings for a second L.A. show in 1983.
Los Angeles auctioneer Michael Barzman has agreed to plead guilty to helping create fake Jean-Michel Basquiat works that were on view at the Orlando Museum of Art last year.
A new exhibition in downtown L.A., Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure, takes an inside look at the man and his work. That’s aided by access to the artist’s personal life made possible because it’s presented by Basquiat’s estate, run by his sisters Jeanine Heriveaux and Lisane Basquiat.