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Biography
One of the most famous American artists of all time, Jean-Michel Basquiat first gained notoriety as a subversive graffiti-artist and street poet in the late 1970s. Operating under the pseudonym SAMO, he emblazoned the abandoned walls of the city with his unique blend of enigmatic symbols, icons and aphorisms. A voracious autodidact, by 1980, at 22-years of age, Basquiat began to direct his extraordinary talent towards painting and drawing. His powerful works brilliantly captured the zeitgeist of the 1980s New York underground scene and catapulted Basquiat on a dizzying meteoric ascent to international stardom that would only be put to a halt by his untimely death in 1988.
Basquiat's iconoclastic oeuvre revolves around the human figure. Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African-American and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources.
Insights
Basquiat's Untitled, 1982, achieved $110.5 million at auction, making it the most expensive work to be sold by an American artist.
Basquiat's oeuvre is currently being celebrated at the Barbican Art Gallery's Basquiat: Boom for Real Barbican retrospective.
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Past Lots
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Thermopolae
Estimate HK$26,000,000 - 38,000,000
Sold for HK$31,950,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
The Ring
Estimate $10,000,000 - 15,000,000
Sold for $15,035,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000
Sold for $325,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
Estimate £3,000,000 - 5,000,000
Sold for £3,842,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Pink Elephant with Fire Engine
Estimate £3,000,000 - 4,000,000
Sold for £2,655,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (From Leonardo)
Estimate £500,000 - 700,000
Sold for £471,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Robot Man
Estimate $2,500,000 - 3,500,000
Sold for $3,860,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Self Portrait
Estimate $9,000,000 - 12,000,000
Sold for $9,500,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Piss Piss Piss Piss)
Estimate $600,000 - 800,000
Sold for $620,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Self-Portrait with Paige Powell
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £30,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Red/Black Figure)
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Sold for $400,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Standing Male Figure)
Estimate $700,000 - 1,000,000
Sold for $800,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Figure with Blue Head)
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
Sold for $437,500
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Insect Order)
Estimate $150,000 - 200,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Velveeta)
Estimate £1,200,000 - 1,500,000
Sold for £1,887,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
Estimate £500,000 - 700,000
Sold for £681,250
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
Estimate $4,000,000 - 6,000,000
Sold for $4,575,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
Estimate $9,000,000 - 12,000,000
Sold for $9,000,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Dog Shit in the Head of the Pope
Estimate $70,000 - 100,000
Sold for $87,500
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Bird as Buddha
Estimate £2,000,000 - 3,000,000
Sold for £2,529,000
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Alchemy
Estimate £120,000 - 180,000
Sold for £162,500
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Venus
Estimate £60,000 - 80,000
Sold for £150,000
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