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Paige Powell. "Jean-Michel Basquiat (Hana, Hawaii 1984)". 24" x 20". Signed edition of 100. $200. This intimate shot of Jean-Michel Basquiat was taken during his stay on a ranch in Hana on the island of Maui in 1984. He was working in a studio he set up in Hana with art materials brought from New York and sent from Los Angeles. Paige Powell, along with Basquiat's sister Jeanine, his father, Gerard, and Nora Fitzpatrick all visited the artist in Hawaii that February. In January 2014, more than thirty years after the moment-in-time captured above, the Suzanne Geiss Company presented the exhibition, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Reclining Nude. This was the first presentation of rare, candid photographs from Powell's comprehensive archive, a significant chronicle of her two-year relationship with Jean-Michel as well as 1980’s art and culture in America. We are pleased to present this special edition portrait in collaboration with Paige Powell and the Suzanne Geiss Company.