feature: 24 previously unseen basquiat drawings & paintings on display in ny may 1 – june 13

Have you heard the news? Twenty-two previously unseen Jean-Michel Basquiat drawings and two paintings will go on display in New York at the Acquavella Gallery, May 1 to June 13, 2014. The pieces are part of collectors Herbert and Lenore Schorr’s collection. The press release states: “Herbert and Lenore Schorr began collecting the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981, before his first New York exhibition. “During the artist’s seminal years 1982-83 the Schorrs acquired several of his most important paintings, but in contrast to virtually every other early collector, the Schorrs also pursued and acquired a great number of works on paper both directly from the artist and from his early dealers”. ” More info here.