Odours Of Punt is based on an original artwork created by Basquiat in 1983. It is an outstanding painterly example of the artist’s work incorporating his signature Xerox collage technique with paint and oil stick layering and over painting. Released as a screen print in a very limited edition of 60, Odours Of Punt captures the artist’s signature graffiti style that elevated him to fame during the 1980s in New York City. The gestural marks and expressive nature of the large color fields are pierced like icebergs with text and cave-like markings. Juxtapositions of color, semi-discernible forms and text showcase Basquiat’s boundless creative expression.

Created in 1983 and released in 2024, Odours of Punt is a screenprint by Jean-Michel Basquiat, measuring 84 × 42 inches. The composition is densely layered with energetic marks and handwritten elements, characteristic of Basquiat’s visual language. Vivid areas of deep blue, yellow and white cut across a ground of text, symbols and diagrammatic forms, creating a restless surface that blends abstraction with figuration. Odours of Punt was issued posthumously in a limited edition of 60, each work stamped and dated by Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, the artist’s sisters and administrators of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.