The Fondation Louis Vuitton will host Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol this spring

It will surely be the flagship exhibition of 2023, “Basquiat x Warhol – à quatre mains”, which will bring together some one hundred works by the two artists next spring at the Fondation Louis-Vuitton.

Several years after its exhibition devoted to Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Fondation Louis Vuitton is organising a retrospective entitled “Basquiat x Warhol, À quatre mains”.

The two artists met through the gallery owner and collector Bruno Bischofberge. Their ambitions overlap: Andy Warhol was looking for transfiguration, renewal and candour, and Jean-Michel Basquiat was looking for a form of collective recognition. Basquiat admires Warhol as a key figure in the art world, the initiator of a new language and an original relationship with popular culture. For his part, Warhol found in Basquiat a new interest in painting.

*© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / ADAGP, Paris 2022*

Thanks to Warhol, Basquiat learns about silk-screening. The two men listened to each other, observed each other, and then merged in common works. Together they produced about 160 paintings. “I draw first, and then I paint like Jean-Michel. I think the paintings we do together are better when you don’t know who did what”, explained Andy Warhol, about their collaboration.

In order to recreate the artistic effervescence of New York in the 1980s, the Foundation will also present the work of artists Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer and Kenny Scharf. 15 works from a collaboration with the Italian painter Francesco Clemente will also be included in this retrospective.

“Basquiat x Warhol – A quatre mains” can be seen from April 5 to August 28, 2023 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

More information here.

Featured photo : © Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dos Cabezas, Dos Cabezas, 1982, acrylique et h/t, 152,4 x 152,4 cm, collection particulière © Guy Boyer

Hélène Cougot

Passionnée depuis son plus jeune âge par l’art et la mode, Hélène s’oriente vers une école de stylisme, l’Atelier Chardon-Savard à Paris, avec une option Communication. Afin d’ajouter des cordes à son arc, elle décide de compléter sa formation par un MBA en Management du Luxe et Marketing Expérientiel à l’Institut Supérieur de Gestion à Paris dont elle sort diplômée en 2020. Elle a notamment écrit des articles lifestyle et beauté pour le magazine Do it in Paris et se spécialise en rédaction d’articles concernant le luxe, l’art et la mode au sein du magazine Luxus Plus.********** [EN] Passionate about art and fashion from a young age, Hélène went to a fashion design school, Atelier Chardon-Savard in Paris, with a Communication option. In order to add more strings to her bow, she decided to complete her education with an MBA in Luxury Management and Experiential Marketing at the Institut Supérieur de Gestion in Paris from which she graduated in 2020. She has written lifestyle and beauty articles for Do it in Paris magazine and specializes in writing articles about luxury, art and fashion for Luxus Plus magazine.