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Basquiat-Warhol, the block of titans

2023-05-05T04:29:05.982Z


The Louis Vuitton Foundation has brought together the main works resulting from the collaboration between the two American icons.


Le Figaro Magazine

The flow does not stop.

On each floor of the Louis Vuitton Foundation, a compact crowd throngs on this April morning to celebrate the pop art and street art trends.

Visitors of all ages and all nationalities savor almost religiously the spectacle offered by the presentation of the works carried out

"with four hands"

by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat *.

Conversations, held in low voices in front of vast frescoes 10 meters long or simple snapshots, reach our ears.

I didn't know it was a full-fledged work."

slips a student to her neighbor, seduced by the 80 paintings unveiled by the Parisian institution - out of the 160 listed between 1983 and 1985. The same wonder observed in a retired couple, under the spell of these exceptional pieces, sometimes raw in stripping, or other relics of which he barely suspected the existence:

This journey provides proof that it is possible to discover…

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Source: lefigaro

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