Jean-Michel Basquiat: In Italian Skateboard Decks Lucian Freud West’s oeuvre possesses a character

West’s oeuvre possesses a character that is at once lighthearted and deeply philosophical

to narrate an unresolved tension between man- and machine-made imagery

past experiences

Completed in 2005

Jean-Michel Basquiat: In Italian Skateboard Decks Lucian Freud West’s oeuvre possesses a characterThe Skateroom has collaborated with the Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat to create this set of three skateboard decks featuring Basquiats painting In Italian (1983). Basquiat was a denizen of the explosive and decadent New York underground scenea noise musician who loved jazz, and a street poet who scrawled his sophisticated aphorisms in Magic Marker across the walls of downtown Manhattan, copyrighting them under the name SAMO. In 1981, he began