“In its immense scale, compositional fervor, and witty engagement with popular culture, Flash in Naples is an iconic example from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s brief but highly-celebrated oeuvre. Prickling with electricity, Flash in Naples springs forth in shocks of chartreuse, magenta, and vermillion, his archetypal figures nearly leaping off the canvas. Taking inspiration from cartoons and comics, Basquiat here depicts the Flash, a popular superhero in the 1960s and 1970s, in two larger-than-life figures. Part of a highly regarded group of five other paintings depicting Basquiat’s personal heroes and idols, Flash in Naples is remarkable for its rarity, chromatic brilliance and intensely worked painterly surface.” – @sothebys Artwork: Flash in Naples, 1983.