Art auction

Basquiat Sells For $110.5 Mn In Artist’s Auction Record

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A 1982 untitled Basquiat sold for $110.5 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new auction record for the US artist in Sotheby’s flagship post-war and contemporary art sale, the auction house said. Jean-Michel Basquiat, the US wonderkid of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, who died in 1988 of an overdose at the age … Read more

Basquiat Headlines New York Art Auction Season

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Jean-Michel Basquiat occupies star billing on the auction block in New York this season, catapulting the artist into the rostrum of 20th century greats nearly three decades after his death. Riding high on last year’s $57 million auction record set when a Japanese billionaire snapped up a self-portrait, at least 14 works by the US … Read more