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1982 was a watershed year for Jean-Michel Basquiat. At twenty-one years old, he completed his transition from a graffiti artist to a star of the New York art scene. [2] Basquiat had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Rotterdam.
Untitled is a painting created by Haitian American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. The artwork, which depicts a skull, is among the most expensive paintings ever. In May 2017, it sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby's, the highest price ever paid at auction for artwork by an American artist in a public sale.
Untitled is a 1981 painting created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981. An X-ray-like vision of the head's exposed upper and lower jaw accounts for its misinterpretation as a skull. The painting was acquired by Eli and Edythe Broad in 1982, and is now housed at The Broad museum in Los Angeles. [1]
Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paintings at Akira Ikeda Gallery in Tokyo, December 1985. [8] Jean-Michel Basquiat at Galerie Enrico Navarra in Paris, April–June 1996. [8] Jean-Michel Basquiat at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, January–June 1997; [8] Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in Brazil, June–August 1998. [8]
Norman was an art collector, counting among his acquisitions five pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose “Untitled” sold in May 2017 at Sotheby's New York for $110.5 million, setting the then record price for an American artist at auction. [35] In 1982, Norman purchased “Hannibal” from Basquiat in the artist's studio for $3200.
Executed in 1982, Untitled (Head) is an outburst of vivid color, bearing echoes to one of Basquiat's most well-known heads Untitled. "Whereas Untitled (1981) presents the viewer with a mask-like visage caught somewhere between life and death, Untitled (Head) (1982) creates an effect that’s somewhat more supernatural because of its evocatively unnatural hues."
The film is a lightly fictionalized account of Basquiat's life. A struggling artist living in a cardboard box in Tompkins Square Park works his way up the rungs of the New York art world in the eighties, thanks in part to his association with Andy Warhol, the art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, poet and critic René Ricard, and fellow artist Albert Milo.