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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.
'Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure,' produced by the late artist's sisters, features more than 200 paintings, drawings and ephemera from the family’s estate, and immersive re-creations of places important to him.