77 HISTORY & CULTURE 100BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel. CLEMENTE, Francesco. WARHOL, Andy. Collaborations. Zurich, 1984. Slim octavo, original blue and white cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $8500 Icons Of Pop Art: Inscribed By Warhol First edition, boldly inscribed by Andy Warhol to photographer Christopher Makos. A landmark moment of 20th-century art: the exhibition catalogue documenting 15 collaborative multimedia works created by visionary art-world star Basquiat, Italian artist and publisher Clemente and legendary figure Warhol. Bruno Bischofberger, who represented all three artists, brought them together by commissioning these pieces; the canvases were displayed from September 15 to October 13, 1984 in Bischofberger’s gallery and are reproduced here in full color, accompanied by a black-and-white portrait of the artists. For Warhol and Basquiat, the project marked the start of an extraordinary working relationship that became one of the most iconic artistic partnerships of the 1980s. This copy inscribed by Warhol to “Chris”: Christopher Makos, dubbed by Warhol “the most modern photographer in America”—a close friend of the artist’s who often photographed both him and Basquiat. Book fine, in a near-fine dust jacket with minor rubbing to spine head.
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