BASQUIAT BY HIMSELF

Jean-Michel Basquiats self-portraits are regarded as being among the most important of his radical creative works. In addition to s ome 50 specific portraits of himself, we can also see his series of likenesses of African-American men as concealed reproductions of the artist. Not least because Basquiat, who was affected himself by everyday racism, identified with his heroes, saints and martyrs as he portrayed them.