SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA.- Self-promoting pop art painter Julian Schnabel is launching a new art dynasty. Besides having become the most celebrated living painter today, his 21-year-old daughter Lola Schnabel (from his marriage to his first wife Jacqueline) has published her first "artist’s book," titled Remember Me, a limited edition of 1,000 signed and numbered hardcover copies put out by Perceval Press of Santa Monica. The beautifully produced 26-page tome features the young artist’s evocative Polaroid color photos (white horses in a woods, three nude girls in a tub, artist Luigi Ontani in a cemetery) paired with rough-hewn drawings and watercolors of figures that resemble the Julian Schnabel and family friend Francesco Clemente.

Julian Schnabel, known for his oversized canvasses, made the transition to screenwriter and director with "Basquiat" (1996), a biopic based on the life of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat and Schnabel were friends from about 1981 until the former’s death in 1988, and both were also a part of the same crowd as Andy Warhol. Born in Brooklyn, Schnabel moved with his family to west Texas when still young and it was there that he spent most of his formative years. In 1973, he sent an application to the independent study program at the Whitney Museum in NYC, which included slides of his work sandwiched between two pieces of bread. (He was accepted.) Struggling in the art world, Schnabel worked as a short-order cook and hung out at Max’s Kansas City, the famed music and comedy club in Greenwich Village, while he worked on his art. In 1979, Mary Boone gave him his first one-person show at her Soho Gallery. As it was the heyday of pop artists in the New York scene, Schnabel found himself in the limelight. His paintings were large--often billboard size--and he reportedly lived his life on a large scale as well, even publishing an autobiography in 1987. Eventually some of Schnabel’s works from the early 80s would sell at auction in the 90s for as much as $1 million. After the death of Basquiat, Schnabel sought to make a film on his friend’s life.