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TWO JOINTS FOR
In one of the most uneven trades ever, Jean-Michel Basquiat painted three portraits of Joan Agajanian Quinn and gave them to the film producer in return for two joints. Quinn was the West Coast editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in 1984 when Warhol came to visit with Basquiat.
“Andy said to Joan, ‘If you can find Jean-Michel some marijuana, he will do your portrait,’” Warhol satellite Richard Dupont, of the Dupont twins and who is friends with Joan, told me. “Joan had two old joints that drag queen Divine left at her Beverly Hills home and she brought them over to Andy and Jean-Michel at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel,” Dupont said Joan related to him. “I wish Andy had phoned me.” Quinn also has four Don Bachardy portraits on exhibit at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California, along with works by David Hockney and Ed Ruscha. The only person with more Don Bachardy portraits is celebrity chef Sandra Lee’s new man Ben Youcef, who has five.
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