The photographer who captured Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat as boxing champions for a series of publicity pictures says that Robert Mapplethorpe was initially lined up to take the famous ...

Robinson died in 1989 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. In Basquiat’s painting, Robinson’s “muscular frame is defined by his broad shoulders, which nearly ...

and “Untitled (Boxer)” sold for $13.5 million in New York in 2008. Diego Cortez, the curator who was instrumental in launching the career of Basquiat, previously described the late artist as ...

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat stand side-by-side, arms crossed, each wearing Everlast boxing gloves and shorts. Warhol, in his signature black turtleneck, holds his gloved hands up around his ...