Basquiat was a neo-expressionist painter in the 1980s
Sotheby’s sold a large untitled 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting earlier this year for the jaw-dropping sum of $110.5million.
Estimated at $60m, the painting smashed the Basquiat auction record set a year ago at Christie’s by another untitled Basquiat, which had fetched a comparatively modest $57.2m.
Basquiat was a neo-expressionist painter in the 1980s.
He is best known for his primitive style and his collaboration with the celebrated pop artist Andy Warhol.
The artist died of a heroin overdose at his art studio on August 12, 1988 at the of age 27.
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