- Created by
- Weems, Carrie Mae, American, born 1953
- Photograph by
- Warhol, Andy, American, 1928 - 1987
- Subject of
- Basquiat, Jean-Michel, American, 1960 - 1988
- Jack Shainman Gallery, American, founded 1984
- Date
- 2014
- Medium
- ink on paper (fiber product) with glass , wood , metal and mat board
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 39 × 30 15/16 × 2 1/16 in. (99 × 78.6 × 5.2 cm)
- Description
- A mixed media portrait titled Blue Notes (Basquiat): Who's Who or a Pair of Aces #1, by Carrie Mae Weems. The inkjet print features a blurred reproduction of Andy Warhol’s 1982 photographic portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat printed in muted blue-gray tones. Basquiat is shown in bust pose from the shoulders up. He is wearing a medium tone jacket over a lighter dress shirt with a dark tie. Basquiat’s proper left fingers are slightly curled and raised to his jaw line. Half of his short dreadlocks have been pulled up and tied into two thick pigtails on the top of his head and the rest of his dreadlocks are loose and sticking out at various angles around the bottom half of his head. At the center of the portrait, covering Basquiat’s eyes and forehead, is a screen printed solid red, rectangular block. The print has a thick white border and is mounted directly to the white back of a shallow, white shadow box frame.
- Place made
- New York, United States, North and Central America
- Portfolio/Series
- The Blue Notes Series
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- portraits
- inkjet prints
- Topic
- Art
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2023.117.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Carrie Mae Weems, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Galerie Barbra Thumm, Berlin
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




