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In the early ’80s, when I wanted to start making these very large-scale paintings, my friends were smuggling from Thailand, so they’d send a van over. I needed money to make these big paintings, and so they’d send a van over with 20 boxes of 10 or 15 pounds each—cardboard boxes, sealed tight so they wouldn’t have a smell. I had a Rasta friend in Brooklyn who was a singer—he had had one reggae-dance crossover pop song, and he bought this big old house in Bushwick in what was a really rough neighborhood. It had a garage, and he ran this kind of speakeasy out of there, with people coming and buying $5 bags. And he had 27 kids. Amistad: Portrait of Cinque (oil on shaped canvas, 1983), a painting Jaffe did in collaboration with Jean-Michel Basquiat. Photo courtesy of Lee Jaffe.Philadelphia Eagles 2025 East Division Champions Shirt
Yeah. Amazing story. Two of the kids were old enough to drive, and they would drive over to me and pick up some boxes, and then they’d start to bring $5 bills back to me. The hardest part of the job was what to do with the money. Yeah—but fortunately, at that time, my mother was the manager of a [legendary] club called Danceteria, and she always had all this cash. Every night at 4 a.m., she and my dad would have to walk from Danceteria crosstown to their apartment on 26th and Lexington with thousands of dollars in cash. I was always really nervous about them walking with all of that money, but they didn’t care. But my mother would change the $5 bills for me. I didn’t know what a king lives like. I was living well enough to make these paintings, and then I started to sell the paintings. One time, counting the money, I found a handmade counterfeit $5 bill that had been made by taking the corner off a $5 bill and Scotch-taping it to the corner of a $1—when you’re passing it, you just made sure to show the new $5 corner, and since the original $5 bills were only missing one corner, you could still use them. I was amazed when I saw it, and then Jean-Michel came over and I showed it to him, and he said, “Oh, I’m going to the Factory, I’ll get Andy to photograph it.” I have it still—he made a few prints.
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