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A Gift from Basquiat: Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails

Photo of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bobby Grossman

About the Online Exhibition

JGC Fine Art is pleased to present the online exhibition, A Gift from Basquiat: Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails, which illuminates a little-known friendship between groundbreaking artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), one of the most important creative talents of the 20th century, and self-taught musician Randy Gun, a fixture of Manhattan’s downtown new music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. 


The exhibition includes images and details of a personal gift from Basquiat to Gun: a special anniversary edition of the barman’s guide and recipe book, Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails, 1986, by Harry MacElhone, the owner of the famous Harry’s Bar in Paris. The book features a dedication from Basquiat to Gun and six pages of never-before-seen drawings by the artist in graphite and colored pencil. 


Produced by JGC Fine Art LLC this exhibition features an interview with Gun by editor, critic and art historian David Ebony, texts by Janis Gardner Cecil, and original photography by Bobby Grossman, among others. 


The Fine Arts Program at Restaurant DANIEL

Chef Daniel Boulud announced the fine art program at Restaurant Daniel, New York, his Michelin-starred flagship, curated with Janis Gardner Cecil. This dedicated series of biannual exhibitions begins with an installation of paintings by Alex Katz, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York, and works by Robert Mapplethorpe from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. 


See Press for further details and images.

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