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The figure is part skeleton, part knight, part self-portrait — Basquiat painted warriors, boxers and kings as versions of himself, and gave each one a crown or a halo of thorns.
Look at how the paint is applied: blue slabs on the left, ochre on the right, white lines scratched through, yellow poured in. The body is described rather than modelled.
It needs a wall of its own. 50×70 cm is the minimum; 70×100 cm is how it is meant to be seen.















