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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
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culture · American artist (1960–1988) · painter · artivist · musicologist · record producer · composer · draftsperson · sculptor · graffiti artist · photographer · actor · also Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean Michel Basquiat, SAMO, Basquiat, Samo
Born 22 December 1960 · Died 12 August 1988 · Q155407
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2026· 4 entries
“are shown frontally, with little or no depth of field, and nerves and organs are exposed, as in an anatomy textbook. Are these creatures dead and being clinically dissected, one wonders, or alive and in immense pain?”
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The Guardian: Artist accused of winning prize with ‘imitation’ won Australian award with piece ‘influenced’ by Basquiat
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The Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, opened the solo show Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols
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2025· 2 entries
The block of 57 Great Jones Street (between Bowery and Lafayette) was named "Jean-Michel Basquiat Way
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His painting Crowns (Peso Neto) (1981) sold at Sotheby's for $48
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2024· 1 entry
The gallery Hauser & Wirth presented Jean-Michel Basquiat
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2023· 3 entries
El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile) (1983) sold for $67
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The show traveled to Paris as Basquiat Soundtracks at the Philharmonie de Paris
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Florida art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for a money laundering scheme to sell counterfeit contemporary artworks, including pieces purportedly by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warh
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2022· 1 entry
The Albertina presented the first museum retrospective of Basquiat's work in Austria
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2021· 2 entries
Basquiat's annual auction sales fell 50% in 2022
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The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation funded a Basquiat educational arts program developed in partnership between the Brooklyn Nets, the New York City Department of Education and the Fund for Public Schools
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2020· 3 entries
The Lotte Museum of Art mounted the first major exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat in Seoul
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In France, an exhibition of drawings attributed to Basquiat at the Volcano gallery in Nuits-Saint-Georges was disputed
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A Los Angeles man, Philip Bennet Righter, pled guilty to art fraud after trying to sell forged paintings by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat
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2019· 1 entry
The Brant Foundation in New York, hosted an extensive exhibition of Basquiat's works with free admission
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2018· 1 entry
A public square in the 13th arrondissement of Paris was named Place Jean-Michel Basquiat in his memory
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2017· 4 entries
Untitled, a 1982 painting depicting a black skull with red-and-yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $110
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Basquiat was posthumously awarded the key to the city of Brooklyn by Borough President Eric Adams and honored on the Celebrity Path at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Graffiti artist Banksy created two murals inspired by Basquiat on the walls of the Barbican
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Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979–1980 exhibited as Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, which displayed works created during the year Basquiat lived with his friend Alexis Adler
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2016· 3 entries
Air Power, part of David Bowie's art collection, was sold at auction for nearly $9 million
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The Brooklyn Museum organized and presented Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, the first major viewing of Basquiat's sketches, poetry, notetaking, and overall artist's book practice
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The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation placed a plaque commemorating Basquiat's life outside his former residence at 57 Great Jones Street in Manhattan
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2015· 1 entry
Basquiat was featured on the cover of Vanity Fair's Art and Artists Special Edition
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2012· 1 entry
Elevated his market to a new stratosphere and soon other works in his oeuvre outpaced that record
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2008· 1 entry
The authentication committee was sued by collector Gerard De Geer, who claimed the committee breached its contract by refusing to offer an opinion on the authenticity of the painting Fuego Flores (1983)
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2007· 3 entries
Basquiat's painting Hannibal (1982) was seized by federal authorities as part of an embezzlement scheme by convicted Brazilian money launderer and former banker Edemar Cid Ferreira
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Basquiat was listed among GQ's 50 Most Stylish Men of the Past 50 Years
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Christie's was sued by art collector Guido Orsi and art dealer Tony Shafrazi, for allegedly selling Shafrazi a fake Basquiat, which Orsi later purchased
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2002· 1 entry
Profit I (1982) was sold at Christie's by drummer Lars Ulrich of the heavy metal band Metallica for $5
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1996· 1 entry
Madonna sponsored an exhibition of his work at the Serpentine Gallery in London
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1994· 1 entry
Three paintings displayed as Basquiats at the FIAC were revealed to be fakes
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1988· 2 entries
Died 1988-08-12.
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The market for his work has developed steadily—in line with overall art market trends—with a dramatic peak in 2007 when, at the height of the art market boom, the global auction volume for his work was over $115 million
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1987· 1 entry
Basquiat had exhibitions at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris, the Akira Ikeda Gallery in Tokyo, and the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York
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1986· 1 entry
“INTERVIEW Jean Michel Basquiat with Becky Johnston and Tamra Davis”
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1985· 3 entries
Which was unprecedented for a young black artist
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Walked the runway for the Comme des Garçons Spring fashion show in New York
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The University Art Museum, Berkeley hosted Basquiat's first solo American museum exhibition
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1984· 2 entries
Which traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam in 1985
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It was reported that in two years his work appreciated in value by 500%
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1983· 2 entries
Produced the hip-hop record "Beat Bop" featuring Rammellzee and rapper K-Rob
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Basquiat had his first show there in May 1984
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1982· 4 entries
“I had some money; I made the best paintings ever.”
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Also had shows at the Gagosian Gallery in West Hollywood, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich, and the Fun Gallery in the East Village
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And then placed in storage, where they remained until being rediscovered in 2012
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Nosei arranged for him to move into a loft, which also served as a studio at 101 Crosby Street in SoHo
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1981· 1 entry
At the MoMA PS1 New York/New Wave exhibition
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1979· 1 entry
Basquiat appeared on the live public-access television show TV Party hosted by Glenn O'Brien
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1978· 1 entry
The Village Voice published an article about the SAMO graffiti
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1976· 1 entry
Basquiat attended Edward R
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1968· 1 entry
At the age of seven, Basquiat was hit by a car while playing in the street
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1967· 1 entry
Started attending Saint Ann's School, a private school
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1960· 2 entries
In Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City, the second of four children to Matilde Basquiat (née Andrades, 1934–2008) and Gérard Basquiat (1930–2013)
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Born 1960-12-22.
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