Opera Gallery is pleased to present ‘Warhol, Basquiat, Haring. Une amitié artistique’ from 16 October – 19 November 2026. In the history of late twentieth-century art, few encounters were as significant as those between Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol. Three artists seemingly defined by their differences, their generations, backgrounds and artistic language, yet brought together by the same city, the same era and a shared conviction: that art could fully engage with the present without losing its power.
The exhibition brings together a major selection of paintings and works on paper spanning a decade, from 1979 to 1989. Highlights include Andy Warhol’s Multicolored Retrospective (Reversal series) (1979), a striking homage to three iconic subjects—the Mona Lisa,
Marilyn Monroe
and the Campbell’s Soup can—recasting familiar images through Warhol’s distinctive language of repetition, colour and appropriation;
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s
Batman (1983), an energetic composition in oil stick and felt-tip marker on paper, in which fragmented figures, symbols and spontaneous marks exemplify the raw immediacy and restless energy of his visual language; and
Keith Haring’s
TV Dog (1982), a characteristic work in sumi ink on paper that transforms his instantly recognisable graphic language into a playful yet incisive reflection on mass media and contemporary life.
Keith Haring,
Untitled
All three shared a profound understanding of the power of the image. ‘Warhol, Basquiat, Haring. Une amitié artistique’ invites us to look anew at a history we may think we already know: not as three separate trajectories, but as a constellation shaped by friendship, admiration and the circulation of ideas — an exceptional encounter that continues to shape the way we look at art and images.
