A Gift from Jean-Michel Basquiat: Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails, 1986
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Winter 1980-81, during the filming of Downtown 81. On a day off fro filming, Bobby Grossman and Basquiat met for lunch at the popular downtown restaurant Kiev, and shot together at Mulberry and Bleecker Street in front of Basquiat's orginal SAMO© graffiti, itself vandalized.
A Virtual Exhibition by JGC Fine Art, LLC, New York
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4. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails), 1986
Page 90
Figure with banana / Cyrillic text (?)
Colored pencil on printed paper
6 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches (15.9 x 8.2 cm)
Framed dimensions: 14 3/16 x 11 3 /16 in (36 x 28.4 cm)
7. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails), 1986
Page 95
“ HONER / H “
Graphite pencil on printed paper
6 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches (15.9 x 8.2 cm)
Framed dimensions: 14 3/16 x 11 3 /16 in (36 x 28.4 cm)
8. Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails: More than 300 Famous Cocktails
Harry MacElhone, with new material by Andrew MacElhone
Souvenir Press Ltd, London, 1986
Hardcover with original red cloth, illustrated dustjacket in two parts
6 ½ x 3 ½ in. (16.5 x 8.9 cm)
Seven pages removed as described above and individually framed.
Endpapers and ca. 88 pages, including alphabetized cocktail recipes
Note: “International Bar-flies” endpaper with illustration and page 27 include black pencil indications by the artist.
ISBN 0 285 62772 4
Photoset and printed in Great Britain by WBC Print Ltd, Bristol
