Aug 11, 2023
Jennifer Clement, Widow Basquiat
Jennifer Clement, Widow Basquiat
“His paintings were inspired by the jazz musicians and he felt akin to them. A lot of the early jazz artists, of course, couldn’t even walk through the front door of the hotels and clubs they were playing in and had to enter through back doors and kitchens, and I think Jean felt this was a metaphor for his place in the white art world: he had entered through the back door. He broke into the white art world in a way that had never been done before by a black.”
- Suzanne Mallouk ( Widow Basquiat: A memoir by Jennifer Clement)
Messing around
He always appreciated expensive things, as if consuming them would make him valuable.
Suzanne Mallouk (on Jean-Michel Basquit)
One of the hardest things to describe about Jean is his elegance. There was something so beautiful about the way he moved and spoke. This partly had to do with his drug use that kept him very slim and childlike. But it was innate also. I was also very slim and waiflike. We looked twelve years old.
Widow Basquiat - A Memoir by Jennifer Clement
My new pleasure....Widow Basquiat | A MEMOIR | by Jennifer Clement
“You can leave but you can always come back. You can live here again. Life can be a circle, not just a line.”