Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol: 6.99 (Nude) Plate Salome Gomez-Upegui and the Museum Küppersmühle für

and the Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst

Basquiat studied the medical textbook Gray’s Anatomy while recuperating from an injury

The painter imparts new vigor to the motif and its accompanying script

including comments by de Waal

From his knowingly impersonal “self-portraits

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol: 6.99 (Nude) Plate Salome Gomez-Upegui and the Museum Küppersmühle fürProduced by Ligne Blanche in Paris, this Limoges porcelain plate features a detail from Jean Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhols collaborative painting 6. 99 (1985), one of approximately 160 works that the artists worked on together between 1984 and 1985. Here, a female nude dominates the composition, and football players, African masks, and copyright symbols occupy the background. 6. 99 is overpainted with broad strokes of white and bold crisscrossing