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Video: The bright skull, which became the most expensive painting of the "black Picasso", and other paintings by Basquiat
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It often happens that paintings by artists after their death increase significantly in value. A modern black artist from Brooklyn (USA) was no exception. Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died at the age of 27. His work "Untitled" (1982) at last year's May Sotheby's auction was sold for a fabulous sum - 110.5 million dollars … This is the most expensive painting ever sold in the art market and has won the first place in the rating of American artists. She also takes 11th place in the top of the most expensive works of art in the world.
The painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat was acquired by 41-year-old Japanese tycoon Yusake Maezawa. Now he decided to show the canvas to the whole world and in the near future he will organize an exhibition of the painting. The exhibition will begin at the Brooklyn Museum on January 26 and will run until March 11, 2018 as part of the One Basquiat show.
This painting will go on a world tour in the spring, after which it will become a decoration of the gallery of the house of Yusake Maezawa, which he is building in his hometown of Chiba in Japan. By the way, the tycoon's fortune is currently estimated at three billion dollars and ranks fourteenth among the wealthy people in Japan.
And since this painting has never been exhibited in museums in 30 years and is not familiar to the general public, the billionaire tycoon stated:
Jean-Michel Basquiat is the Black Picasso
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in 1960 in New York. At four, the boy already knew how to write, and by eleven he spoke three languages. At a very young age, he began his artistic career with graffiti and street art, and was also fond of music. At the age of 22, fate brought him together with Andy Warhol, having teamed up with whom they created many joint projects. And despite the big difference in age and skill, they became close friends.
A feature of the artist's creations is the style of neo-expressionism, in which both graffiti and rock painting are combined, and the theme of his work was personal experiences associated with the situation of blacks in the United States in the 80s.
Jean-Michel was the first black artist to achieve recognition and popularity not only in the United States. Already during his lifetime, he made good money on his creations. However, the artist spent most of his savings on drugs, ranging from "innocent" marijuana to cocaine, and in 1984 he became addicted to heroin. The peak of Basquiat's drug frenzy began after the death of Andy Warhol in 1987. Jean-Michel died of a drug overdose in 1988.
The star of the dark-skinned artist, flashing brightly and swiftly, just as quickly faded away. However, he managed to leave behind a legacy that is estimated at tens of millions of dollars.
According to statistics, the painting "Profit I" in 2002 went under the hammer for $ 5.5 million. In 2007, an unnamed painting was sold at auction for $ 14.6 million. In 2013, the painting "Fogged Heads" was sold for $ 48.8 million mln.
Jean-Michel's works are currently kept in the collections of Leonardo DiCaprio and rapper Jay-Z. And now experts say that his legacy was not credited to the category of pop culture, and museum workers deliberately underestimated its importance in the history of art.
The painting "Riding Death" was the last one painted by the artist.
The fate of the 15-year-old Russian artist was also tragic, Kolya Dmitrieva, whose watercolors have been admired for over 70 years.
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