James Brown
American · 1951–2020
James Brown was an American-born painter active in Paris and Oaxaca, Mexico. He was most well known in the 1980s for his rough painterly semi-figurative paintings, bearing… (Wikipedia)
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UntitledLempertz · €64,480≈ $71,902≈ £57,187Sign up to see
Autoritratto (Nr. 14)Van Ham · €24,181≈ $28,214≈ £21,196Sign up to see
Untitled VPhillips · $25,200≈ £23,783≈ €26,346Sign up to see
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James Brown was an American-born painter active in Paris and Oaxaca, Mexico. He was most well known in the 1980s for his rough painterly semi-figurative paintings, bearing affinities to Jean-Michel Basquiat and East Village painting of the time, but with influences from primitive art and classical Western modernism.
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In the collections of
Art Institute of ChicagoMetropolitan Museum of ArtMinneapolis Institute of ArtMuseum ArnhemMuseum of Modern ArtMusée national des beaux-arts du QuébecNational Gallery of AustraliaWhitney Museum of American Art
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Also known as James, II Brown, James III Brown
Artist record compiled from: Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), Wikidata (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.