Jean-Michel Basquiat Skateboard features a reproduction of Basquiat’s 1984 painting Pez Dispenser.

This Jean-Michel Basquiat Skateboard features a reproduction of Basquiat’s 1984 painting Pez Dispenser.

Like much of Basquiat’s work,
Pez Dispenser combines elements of street art with a complex, Neo-expressionist style.

Size : 78 h x 20 w x 1.27 d cm
Materials: 7 Ply Canadian Maplewood
Year of Design : 2022
Origin : Canada

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.

Basquiat first achieved fame as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of Manhattan's Lower East Side during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he was one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992.