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Jean-Michel Basquiat 1984 Untitled.

Currency:GBP Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1984 Untitled.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat artwork Acrylic and paint Pigments on canvas - Untitled.
22 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches. Stamped by the estate on the back and supplied with letter. Mounted and framed.

Basquiat became famous in the early 1980s, when the idea that artists were supposed to be commercial innocents fell apart for good, and when the idea of the art star a funnily abbreviated inversion, if you think about it, of starving artist first came into vogue. In 1985, The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story on Basquiat, titled New Art, New Money. Its tone was both awed and suspicious, with constant references to a hot, possibly gullible, market in contemporary art. His work was said to be selling so brisk, some observers joked, that the paint was barely dry, and Basquiat himself was quoted as worrying he had become a gallery mascot.