Lot Essay
"[Basquiat] constructs an intensity of line which reads like a polygraph report, a brain-to-hand 'shake.' The figure is electronic-primitive-comic."
—(D. Cortez, quoted in R. D. Marshall and J-L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, vol. 1, Paris, 2000, p. 160)
—(D. Cortez, quoted in R. D. Marshall and J-L. Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, vol. 1, Paris, 2000, p. 160)