Rare Basquiat Drawings Go On View in Denmark

Caroline Roux | Galerie | 3rd February 2026

Basquiat’s ‘head’ drawings are an anomaly. Done early in his career, they are finished works, yet he chose not to exhibit them. His usual plethora of cultural references and textural fragments are absent while lines weave around these figures suggesting “extraordinary psychological strain”. Says the curator, “they are not portraits [but] live in an interpretational zone”. The broader view of Basquiat’s work has been influenced by perceptions that his estate has been managed to emphasise  mythology over artistry.