Bebop Revolution: Jazz That Inspired Jean-Michel Basquiat
Unframed poster
This poster featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting Untitled (Stardust) (1983) was produced in 2024, in conjunction with Bebop Revolution, a two-night concert performed by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. For this event, the world’s premier big band unites with scat singer Ashley Pezzotti to explore bebop, the style of jazz that profoundly inspired Jean-Michel Basquiat. A projection of Basquiat’s jazz-related paintings and this poster will be on view in the Rose Theater atrium, presented with the participation of Larry Gagosian.
This large-scale poster commemorates Basquiat’s love of bebop. A tribute to Charlie Parker, Untitled (Stardust) pulses with the intensity and improvisatory daring of this quintessentially American music, representing the full figure of the musician and the articulated form of his alto saxophone. The word STARDUST is inscribed above Parker like a marquee—a reference to the jazz standard that he interpreted live and in studio recordings in the 1940s and ’50s. A serious collector of records, particularly jazz and blues albums, Basquiat would return to Parker as a subject throughout his career, along with Dizzy Gillespie and other revered figures of jazz.
This poster is also available for purchase in a natural or white wood frame with optional antireflective acrylic glass. For more information about pricing, please contact orders@gagosian.com.
Publisher: Gagosian
Year: 2024
Dimensions: 58 × 42 inches (147.3 × 106.6 cm)
Framed: Sold unframed and framed
