by Roma. Mario Diacono.
Roma, 1982.. (4)pp. (single sheet of tan wove card stock, imprinted in red letterpress). Lrg. 8vo. Self-wraps. The very first catalogue, and the first monograph, published on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, with a densely written text by Mario Diacono. The exhibition was devoted to the display of a single major painting, Il campo vicino laltra strada (The Field Next to the Other Road). Mario Diacono has previously noted that this painting has often been incorrectly dated 1981, and also as being painted and exhibited that year in Modena at the Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, in the show titled SAMO. The work was indeed painted in Modena by the 21-year-old Basquiat, (truncated)