Jean-Michel Basquiat

American | 1960 - 1988

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1960. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Whitney Museum of American Art 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 45 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. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 3,728,130 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 1,006,758 USD.Jean-Michel Basquiat has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, The Guardian and HYPEBEAST. The most recent article is Art on Screen: 12 Movies About Artists Worth Seeing written for Daily Art Magazine in February 2025. The artist died in 1988.

Artist's alternative names: Basquiat

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Portfolio Of Wolf Sausage, King Brand, Dog Leg Study And Undiscovered Genuis ,2019

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Gallery Art

Phooey ,1982

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Hamilton Selway Fine Art

Untitled (Angel) ,1982

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Flexible ,1984

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Self-Portrait as a Heel (Part Two) - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Self-Portrait as a Heel (Part Two) ,1982

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

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El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile) - Jean-Michel Basquiat

El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile) ,1983

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Six Whitney Museum prints - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Six Whitney Museum prints ,1992

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Potter & Potter Auctions

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988 ,1984

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Untitled

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Christie's London

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		Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) after.
		Supercomb 1988
		Offset lithograph printed in colours, 2021, from the second edition of unknown size, published by Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, on smooth wove paper, the full sheet printed to the edges, sheet 729 x 521mm (28 3/4 x 20 1/2in) 

	

 ,1988

After Jean-Michel Basquiat

Forum Auctions London

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Jean-Michel Basquiat Serigraph - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat Serigraph ,1960

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988 ,1984

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

Robinhood Auctions

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988 ,1988

By Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Articles

Art on Screen: 12 Movies About Artists Worth Seeing

Daily Art Magazine 17/02/2025

Whether troubled or exciting, extraordinary or perfectly average, the lives of artists are an endless source of inspiration for cinematographers.

The Neverending Story: Part II - Surrealism's legacy continues at Vito Schnabel Gallery

ArtDaily 15/02/2025

In The Neverending Story: Part II, curated by Bob Colacello, the Vito Schnabel Gallery continues to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the movement launched in Paris in 1924, with the French poet and philosopher Andre Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism.

Victoria Beckham Stages Contemporary Art Exhibition Together with Sotheby's

ArtDaily 07/02/2025

Victoria Beckham, renowned fashion designer and entrepreneur has partnered with Sotheby’s to host an exhibition of contemporary art in her boutique on Dover Street in London.

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Coverage

“ ..Though he is best known for his vibrantly colored figure paintings, language was in many ways his most constant medium... ”
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High Museum of Art

“ ..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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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

“ ..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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Museum of Art, Williams College

“ ..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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High Museum of Art

“ ..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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AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario