Dos Cabezas

Dos Cabezas is a painting created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. The double portrait resulted from Basquiat's first formal meeting with his idol, American pop artist Andy Warhol.
History.
Basquiat first met Warhol when he sold him a postcard in 1979. Later, when Basquiat was selling painted sweatshirts, he went to the Factory and Warhol purchased some. "I just wanted to meet him, he was an art hero of mine," Basquiat recalled. After Bruno Bischofberger became Jean-Michel Basquiat's art dealer, he gave Basquiat a one-man show in his Zurich gallery in September 1982. Bischofberger arranged a lunch meeting between Basquiat and Warhol on October 4, 1982. Warhol documented the meeting in a diary entry, which was posthumously published in "The Andy Warhol Diaries" (1989): Down to meet Bruno Bischofberger (cab $7.50). He brought Jean-Michel Basquiat with him. He's the kid who used the name "Samo" when he used to sit on the sidewalk in Greenwich Village and paint T-shirts. and I'd give him $10 here and there…He's just one of those kids who drives me crazy. He's black but some people say he's Puerto Rican so I don't know. And then Bruno discovered him and now he’s on Easy Street… had lunch for them and then I took a Polaroid and he went home and within two hours a painting was back, still wet, of him and me together. And I mean, just getting to Christie Street must have taken an hour. He told me his assistant painted it."Dos Cabezas", meaning two heads in Spanish, is based on a self-portrait Warhol took with Basquiat. The artwork ignited a close friendship between them which led to a collaboration on numerous paintings. Although Basquiat and Warhol would create several portraits of each other during the following years, "Dos Cabezas" is their only joint portrait. It sold for $7 million at Christie's post-war and contemporary evening sale in November 2010.
Exhibitions.
"Dos Cabezas" has been exhibited at the following art institutions: