Jean-Michel Basquiat: In Italian Skateboard Decks Lucian Freud In partnership with Bernardaud

In partnership with Bernardaud

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: In Italian Skateboard Decks Lucian Freud In partnership with BernardaudThe 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