Basquiat: Pollo Frito: Street to Studio Harry Abrams illustrates numerous works and features

illustrates numerous works and features an essay by Bice Curiger

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

a text by de Waal focuses on the work itself

In Wood’s soft-ground etching

In addition to illustrating the works themselves

Basquiat: Pollo Frito: Street to Studio Harry Abrams illustrates numerous works and featuresCentering on Jean Michel Basquiats important early painting Untitled (Pollo Frito) (1982), this publication analyzes the artists early career as he transitioned from street to studio. Reproducing Basquiats key works made in 1981 and 1982, the volume discusses the artists development in New York, from the graffiti he and Al Diaz created as SAMO to his role as the renowned creator of highly gestural canvases that merged the rawness of New York street