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When the Modigliani consignment was announced in April, former Christie's chairman Brett Gorvy compared it to the moment in 2017 when Sotheby's beat Christie's to the last - minute consignment of a gigantic, electric - blue Jean - Michel Basquiat painting of a skull by delivering its consignor a $ 65 million guarantee.

This dearth of Basquiat in Britain has only spurred interest, however.

Anne Pasternak, the Brooklyn Museum's Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, noted, «We are extremely grateful for Mr. Maezawa's generosity and for this tremendous opportunity to present this stunning painting in Basquiat» shometown.

In 2016, Untitled established a world record for Basquiat at auction, when it sold for $ 57,285,000 at Christie's in New York.

Adam Lindemann, an art collector and gallery owner who held the previous auction record for a Jean Michel Basquiat painting with his sale of Untitled (Devil) for $ 57.3 million last year.

A year ago, Maezawa snapped up a 1982 untitled work by Basquiat for $ 57.3 m as part of a week - long $ 98m spending spree during which he also acquired works by Jeff Koons and Richard Prince.

Featuring a dynamic blend of papers types, text, images of works, and documentary photographs, the accompanying fully illustrated catalog presents new scholarship on Basquiat by Dieter Buchhart, Christian Campbell, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Carlo McCormick, Jordana Moore Saggese, and Greg Tate.

The initial reaction in the salesroom was a collective gasp, followed by wild applause — and then, perhaps, some quick mental tabulations in the minds of collectors with Basquiats on their walls.

«It's going to be a very strong fair,» said the New York dealer Christophe Van de Weghe, whose booth has a Christopher Wool painting for $ 6.3 million and a Jean - Michel Basquiat work for $ 5.5 million.

Meta - narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from Basquiat's urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin's abstract paintings as sculptural objects to Jonathan Meese's theatrical symbolism.

A seminal moment for me, at age 16, was when I saw a Jean - Michel Basquiat show in New York.

It's both fascinating and scaring that great minds often fall into deep addictions such as Basquiat did.

On view at our gallery at 255 Worth Avenue works by francis bacon, jean michel basquiat, alexander calder, john chamberlain, george condo, tom dash, peter dayton, willem de kooning, elaine de kooning, jim dine, sam francis, hans hofmann, alex katz, lee kranser, nicholas krushenick, yayoi kusama, robert motherwell, richard pettibone, richard prince, frank stella, andy warhol, tom wesselmann and christopher wool

«The way they made their queens, some of them look like Basquiat drawings, or Cy Twombly, with these strange marks.»

«We did better than last year,» says Dominique Lévy of Manhattan's L&M Arts, which sold a Jean - Michel Basquiat drawing for just under $ 1 million and a Keith Haring painting for around $ 500,000.

Sirmans has said his interest in art was piqued when he read about Basquiat in the New York Times Magazine.

Sirmans is an independent curator who has worked on exhibitions including Basquiat, seen recently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Make It Now: New Sculpture for the Sculpture Center in Queens, N.Y..

Although as early as 1979, graffiti artists Lee Quinones and Fab 5 Freddy were exhibiting in galleries, it was not until the 1980s that artists such as Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat began to be widely recognized by institutions, critics, and collectors, creating work that applied the styles they had cultivated on the urban fabric onto canvases and prints.

The Jean - Michel Basquiat exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art shares an unfortunate wall with the Civil War Museum next door, an apologist monument to the legacy of Jefferson Davis.

The Jean - Michel BASQUIAT retrospective at the Beyeler Foundation was a profound meditation on the nature of creativity.

The forever adored and never forgotten Jean - Michel Basquiat made several paintings which incorporate dogs, and I suppose we all know the most famous one.

JAVAKA STEPTOE RECEIVES CALDECOTT AND CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD John Steptoe's son Javaka Steptoe is the 2017 recipient of the Caldecott award, the 2017 Coretta Scott King Award and an NAACP Image Award nomination for his latest book, RADIANT CHILD: THE STORY OF YOUNG ARTIST JEAN - MICHEL BASQUIAT, which he both wrote and illustrated.

In May 2016, an untitled 1982 painting of a horned devil by Basquiat sold for $ 57.3 million at Christie's New York.

One of the most significant painters of the 20th century, Basquiat came of age in the late 1970s in the post-punk underground art scene in downtown New York.

The widely exhibited work, painted when Basquiat was 22 years old, last sold to the seller for a whopping $ 12,037,000 at Christie's New York in November 2013.

The No Wave art nightclub was where George Condo first met Basquiat when -LSB-...]

It wasn't long before Basquiat turned to painting, keeping his knack for re-appropriation, rhythm and aggression firmly intact.

In addition to his pioneering work in painting and sculpture, Schnabel is also an award - winning filmmaker, having written and directed the feature films Basquiat (1996), Before Night Falls (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (2007) and Miral (2010).

Not that the late Jean - Michel Basquiat doesn't deserve this kind of success: he was truly a rare bird that came to roost at just the right time and place in art history.

Combining the «cut - up» style employed by poet William Burroughs, as well as the sampling techniques heralded by early rappers, such as Fab 5 Freddy, Basquiat created works that were both profoundly original and simultaneously rooted in a rich linguistic history.

As Basquiat took his place as king of the New York art world, the crown became his trademark symbol.

Combining the linear precision of Renaissance scientific drawing with the primordial gestures of cave painting, the distortions of Cubist heads and the energy of contemporary street art, the skull became a furnace into which Basquiat poured the contents of his visual imagination, melting together centuries of stylistic influence.

[1] Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced.

Graffiti artists such as Jean - Michel Basquiat exhibited in downtown galleries.

Before the Warhol - owned loft on Great Jones Street and the scrawling canvas works, before the lens of the art world shifted onto the most prolific painter of the 80s, Jean - Michel Basquiat lived in the mostly derelict East Village, on East 12th Street.

The murals were confirmed as genuine on the artist's verified Instagram account, where he said: «Major new Basquiat show opens at the Barbican — a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls.»

Was Basquiat using Warhol, or was a fading idol using a younger man's instant of celebrity?

In 1982, Basquiat became friends with pop artist Andy Warhol and the two made a number of collaborative works.

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Engage in the explosive creativity of Basquiat who worked with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Blondie, among others.

Scott met Basquiat during the installation of the artist's first exhibition at The Larry Gagosian Gallery in West Hollywood in April 1982.

That show featured Basquiat, Haring, Crash, Daze, etc...

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