'Warhol | Basquiat: Paintings' Exhibition Poster

Tony Shafrazi and Bruno Bischofberger, two visionary dealers who shaped the art landscape of their era, served as pivotal forces in bringing together the unlikely yet electrifying partnership of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Their shared exhibition, Warhol | Basquiat: Paintings, stood as a landmark moment, uniting Pop Art’s seasoned master with Neo-Expressionism’s prodigy to produce a body of work that redefined collaboration in contemporary art.

The duo’s 1980s joint paintings pulsed with urban energy—Warhol’s iconic logos and commercial symbols intersecting with Basquiat’s raw, gestural marks to form a dialogue of genius, tension, and mutual transformation. The exhibition poster, featuring the famous Michael Halsband photograph of the pair posed like boxers, captured not competition but creative sparring—a symbolic match where each artist sharpened and challenged the other. In this single image and the exhibition it represents, we witness not only the merging of two artistic worlds but the immortalization of a collaboration that still reverberates through art history.