Framed Picture Found at Goodwill

[Kyc253]

Hi everyone,

I found this picture at a Goodwill in Minneapolis. It originally caught my eye because I want to repurpose the frame for a poster I have and did not want to purchase a new frame for it. Though I put it back something told me to pick it up again because something about the pic itself was interesting. I know very little about art and would love some help identfying before I take the picture out and repurpose the frame. Thank you in advance for any help.

The picture itself is 23W x 24 H. I think it's a reprint of a canvas painting but can't tell for sure. It is in a frame from Dayton's Hudson's. I cannot find any initials or signature on the visiable portion of the picture itself. On the back of the frame on the upper-left (where the outter wood of the frame is) there are the initials AE. I removed the paperback of the frame and the upper-right corner of the backing is the number 621 written upside down.

 

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[vpnavy]

Nice find Kyc253. Thanks for sharing...

 

[Montana Jim]

I can't tell you anything about the art without seeing it for real, but, I can tell you the silver initials "AE" were written there by the people at Goodwill, who, buy some stroke of genius, think it's a secret code to tell cashiers the item is selling for more than a few bucks. For example, there will be no initials on a 4 dollar vase, but there will be on an 8 dollar vase. This way they can catch people changing tags at the register.

You could, potentially, contact the folks who framed it and see if they keep records - the number 621 may be the framer's mark.

 

[absolince]

Love it! It looks alot like Jean Michel Baquiat, one of my favorite contemporary artists.

 

[treasurepirate1]

the hospital ambulance scene reminds me of an artist "George widener" who is a savant who draws with numbers words and pictures that incorporate a complicated mathematical sequence in them, as frames go i actually make my own out of reclaimed dock board and frame my own photos in them, but as far as your find goes it can be very difficult identifying the value of art without someone who specializes in it but frames and mattes can get very expensive depending on what there made of, so you probably got a good deal on the frame and matte.

 

[Red-Coat]

Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

It is indeed one of Jean Michel Basquiat’s works, titled “Worthy Constituents” from 1997. Inspired by the artist’s love of jazz, it depicts a musical ‘duel’ between the saxophonist Charlie Parker and the trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie performing on the song “Salt Peanuts”. It was Gillespie’s composition but Parker played it so frequently that audiences mistakenly began to believe it was his. He therefore took to publicly crediting Gillespie as the writer, announcing him as his “worthy constituent”. Actually, Gillespie co-wrote it with the drummer Kenny Clarke in 1941.

If it were an original lithograph it could be worth a couple of thousand or more, but numerous inexpensive prints and posters exist.