The only Basquiat in a permanent collection in Italy is located in Florence.

In the Collezione Roberto Casamonti, on the noble floor of Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni — a Renaissance masterpiece from 1520 overlooking Piazza Santa Trinita — Untitled (1984) by Jean-Michel Basquiat is preserved: a work that makes Casamonti unique in the Italian museum scene.

The collection, open to the public since 2018, gathers over 80 selected works from almost fifty years of research by the Florentine gallerist Roberto Casamonti: one of the most important private collections in Europe for 20th and contemporary art. The exhibition path covers a century of international art in two main sections.

The first section goes from the early 1900s to the 1960s, featuring Picasso, Chagall, De Chirico, Dalí, Kandinsky, Boccioni, Morandi, Burri, Fontana. The second section spans from the 1970s to the 2000s, including Basquiat, Warhol, Miró, Kapoor, Kiefer, Boetti, Abramović, and many others.

Once a month, the Collection offers a guided tour conducted by the director in person. Limited spots, mandatory reservation available here.