<I>Blue Notes (Basquiat): Who's Who or a Pair of Aces #1</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2014
name: label: Created by
content: Carrie Mae Weems, American, born 1953
label: Photograph by
content: Andy Warhol, American, 1928 - 1987
label: Subject of
content: Jean-Michel Basquiat, American, 1960 - 1988
label: Subject of
content: Jack Shainman Gallery, American, founded 1984
notes: label: Description
content: A mixed media portrait titled Blue Notes (Basquiat): Who's Who or a Pair of Aces #1, by Carrie Mae Weems. The inkjet print features a blurred reproduction of Andy Warhol’s 1982 photographic portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat printed in muted blue-gray tones. Basquiat is shown in bust pose from the shoulders up. He is wearing a medium tone jacket over a lighter dress shirt with a dark tie. Basquiat’s proper left fingers are slightly curled and raised to his jaw line. Half of his short dreadlocks have been pulled up and tied into two thick pigtails on the top of his head and the rest of his dreadlocks are loose and sticking out at various angles around the bottom half of his head. At the center of the portrait, covering Basquiat’s eyes and forehead, is a screen printed solid red, rectangular block. The print has a thick white border and is mounted directly to the white back of a shallow, white shadow box frame.
place: label: Place made
content: New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Photography
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: The Blue Notes Series
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.117.5
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Type
content: inkjet prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Carrie Mae Weems, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Galerie Barbra Thumm, Berlin
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) with glass , wood , metal and mat board
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 39 × 30 15/16 × 2 1/16 in. (99 × 78.6 × 5.2 cm)