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Andy Warhol book signed 8 times with Basquiat art signature (Murray Hill)
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The book came directly from previous owners residence who was descarting books for a few years then later when he passed away the sister started discarded more books and gave all the autograph memorabilia to the building workers who gave me some books too
I acquired previous owners personal affects months later like photos, art, and personal letters by the Forb clan and Andy Warhol one letter by Japan business news agency is regarding a Warhol party that took place around August 1st 1984 with photo negatives included as you may know Warhol never celebrated his birthday but that year in 84 according to the Warhol diaries his staff wished him a happy birthday on the exact day of his birthday August 6 five days after the party
Warhol is believe to have frequented Nippon restaurant longer then the diaries show since the August party wasn't recorded in the diaries and the beginning of the diaries puts Warhol at Nippon since the beginning of the 70s
Warhol had a pain incident at Nippon according to the diaries and visited Nippon 3 times in February the same month he passed away in 1987 the book could have been given to Kuraoka on February 9th 1987 because on February 8th Warhol purchased a few art catalogs out of a box from a dealer that had 40 boxes of books at a thrift shop and Basquiat could had been around since the autographs seem like they are in the style of the 70s and 80s an indication that Warhol took his time perfectly dedicating the book and the Basquiat autograph is in the manner of an affirmation like to say I was here
I saw a story on wiki that described a field trip by a teacher regarding Basquiat and City-As-School making tee-shirts on Huston street park in the mid 70s the small event I've always remembered probably because it was the same year I moved 2 blocks up to Allen street the teachers I also remembered being in the back side of the handball court 30 feet from the tee shirt work area there were 2 white women and a tall brown skin kid with very short hair who didn't talk at all so the teachers told the kid to make me a 3 color tee shirt and we stood together not talking just making a tee-shirt the story also mentioned that it wasn't an actual school just some kind of program that gives money to travel to places but the story was erased even being a teachers recollection
There's a lot of misinformation about Basquiats school bio like he only attended the Brooklyn location as if it was an actual school in order to have people believe he never came to Manhattan where the other school is located on Hudson Street
Also what harm would it be to correct his bio and say his mom used the school travel allowance to take Basquiat to museums
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