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Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1960. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Fondation Beyeler, Basel have featured Jean-Michel Basquiat's work in the past.Jean-Michel Basquiat's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 100 USD to 110,487,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 110,487,500 USD for UNTITLED, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2017. Jean-Michel Basquiat has been featured in articles for World Art News, Hyperallergic and caa.reviews. The most recent article is Art Unlocked: Critics on the One Work That Explains the Great Artists, from Turner to Basquiat written for The Guardian in April 2024. The artist died in 1988.
The upcoming May evening sales in New York at Christie’s have unveiled their centrepiece for the 21st-century evening sale: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s iconic 1982 painting...
From spatial collaborations and retrospective exhibitions to major pavilions led by indigenous artists, the 2024 edition is slated to be the largest Biennale to date.
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..Basquiat’s raw, vibrant imagery is matched by a startling erudition, seen in the fragments of bold, capitalised text that abound in his works...
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..By reading and rereading Basquiat’s work through various perspectives, we begin the process of understanding what this work meant to the artist when it was created and what it means today...
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..A keen observer of history and the world around him, Basquiat communicated critiques of racism, capitalism, and social and economic injustice with deceptively childlike imagery and a sophisticated poetic...
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..Inspired as much by high art — Abstract Expressionism and Conceptualism — as by jazz, sports, comics, remix culture and graffiti, Basquiat translated the world around him into a provocative visual language...
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