Where Is Horn Players? See It at The Broad

Q: Where can I see Horn Players?

It's at The Broad in Los Angeles. The museum holds 13 Basquiat paintings, more than MoMA and the Whitney combined.

Q: Who are the horn players in this painting?

Basquiat painted this as a tribute to jazz legends Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Their names appear throughout the three-panel work, repeatedly written and crossed out.

American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat painted this tribute to jazz legends Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in 1983. The large three-panel work features the musicians' names repeated and crossed out, a technique Basquiat used to draw attention to words while simultaneously erasing them.

Music was central to Basquiat's life and art. Growing up in Brooklyn, he absorbed jazz, bebop, and eventually punk and hip-hop. These influences pulse through his frenetic visual style.

Eli and Edythe Broad were among Basquiat's earliest collectors, purchasing works directly from his shows in the 1980s. The Broad now holds 13 Basquiat paintings, more than MoMA and the Whitney combined.

It's at The Broad in Los Angeles. The museum holds 13 Basquiat paintings, more than MoMA and the Whitney combined.

Basquiat painted this as a tribute to jazz legends Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Their names appear throughout the three-panel work, repeatedly written and crossed out.

He used crossed-out text as a deliberate technique to draw more attention to words, not erase them. In Horn Players, the repeated names of Parker and Gillespie become visual rhythms that mirror the improvisational quality of jazz itself.

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