“African Masks”: Basquiat, Warhol and Africa

This is one of the most astonishing and disturbing aspects of the 160 canvases painted together in a record time of two years by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol: the appearance of an African-American universe. ‘African Masks’, the most monumental work in the ‘Basquiat x Warhol, four-handed’ exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, was for Warhol simply an ‘African masterpiece’.

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