The Unhappily Dead
Artwork details
- Artist
- Rene Ricard
- Title
- The Unhappily Dead
- Date
- 1989
- Medium
- Colour Lithograph
- Edition
- 28
- Sheet
- 31 x 23.5 unfolded to 31 x 47 inches
- Price
- $3,800.00
In the 1980s, he wrote a series of influential essays for Artforum magazine. Having achieved stature in the art world by successfully launching the career of painter Julian Schnabel, Ricard helped bring Jean-Michel Basquiat to fame. In December 1981 he published the first major article on Basquiat, entitled “The Radiant Child,” in Artforum. Ricard also contributed art essays to numerous gallery and exhibition catalogs. Ricard was immortalized by Basquiat in the drawing entitled Rene Ricard / Axe, representing the tension that existed between the two. Andy Warhol called him “the George Sanders of the Lower East Side, the Rex Reed of the art world.”
