Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979–1980 Cotton reproduced on a French-fold signature

reproduced on a French-fold signature

and its focus on an object from the artist’s everyday life

” punctuated by a rising red sun

Michael Dylan Foster

Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979–1980 Cotton reproduced on a French-fold signatureThis catalogue was published on the occasion of Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 19791980 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Featuring a cache of paintings, drawings, photographs, and archival material from the period during which Jean Michel Basquiat shared an apartment in New Yorks East Village with his friend Alexis Adler, the exhibition provided rare insight into the Basquiats creative life at a time that shaped his artistic