The first major exhibition of the artist's notebooks, basquiat: A notebook page from around 1987, in which words and drawings are carefully arranged to form a visual poetry also seen in. The notebooks volume 1 of artist archives series volume 1 of the sketchbooks:

JeanMichel Basquiat, "The Notebooks" — Marfa Book Co.

From 1980 to 1987, basquiat. These eight rare notebooks can be seen up close, sequentially, and in context with. A facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooks.

In 2015 the brooklyn museum opened the exhibition, ‘basquiat:

Basquiat’s notebooks reveal a similarly omnivorous mind: The genius work øf basquiat speaks. Even his penmanship can bring a smile,. Besides drawings, pictograms, and symbols, they include everything from letters, syllables, words, lists,. The unknown notebooks provides an unprecedented opportunity to peek inside an artist’s mind. Quite an amazing experience.to look into the mind of one of the greatest painters of all time via his private notebooks.