With a little help from his sisters, more than 200 rarely seen pieces by the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat are going to be on display in downtown Los Angeles later this month.
Tickets are now on sale for the traveling “Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure” exhibition at The Grand LA, opening March 31 and running through July 31.
Produced and curated by his sisters Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, the exhibition will be made up of paintings, drawings and other artifacts from the family’s estate.
It will also include recreations of his New York studio, the Basquiat family home and the Michael Todd VIP Room at the Palladium nightclub in New York, where Basquiat created two large scale paintings.
According a press release, the exhibition will also touch on the artists’ life in Puerto Rico as a child, his travels to the Ivory Coast and his time in his Venice Beach studio. Two large scale paintings created in the beachside city will also be on display.
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The exhibition’s recent stint in New York City at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in West Chelsea drew more 210,000 visitors during its run.
Basquiat was one of the most prominent artists in the 1980s, who rose to fame as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. He died of a drug overdose at the age of 27.
The show is titled after the artist’s “King Pleasure” painting, which he created in 1987. It was named as a tribute to a song WBLS DJ Frankie Crocker played at the end of his radio show in the 1970s.
Tickets for the exhibition are $25-$35 and can be purchased at kingpleasure.basquiat.com. The Grand LA is located at 100 S. Grand Ave. in downtown Los Angeles.