Jean-Michel Basquiat joined "joined the pantheon of great, great artists" Thursday night, when the late painter's 1982 work Untitled sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million at auction — the ...

It was Maezawa, 41, the founder of Contemporary Art Foundation, who last year set the previous auction high for Basquiat, paying $57.3 million at Christie's for the artist's large 1982 painting of ...

Now is a very good time to own a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Hot on the heels of Sotheby’s record-breaking $110.5 million sale of the artist’s Untitled (1982) last month, which made him ...

A Japanese billionaire has bought a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting for $110.5 million, the highest ever price paid at auction for a work by an American artist. It's a spectacular increase from the ...

A 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday—establishing a new record high for any U.S. artist at auction. Tokyo e-commerce king Yusaku ...

and “Untitled (Boxer)” sold for $13.5 million in New York in 2008. Diego Cortez, the curator who was instrumental in launching the career of Basquiat, previously described the late artist as ...

A Jean-Michel Basquiat painting sold for just over £16 million (US$20.18 million) at Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction in London on Tuesday. The piece, Portrait of the Artist as ...

He was hot. He was cool. He was a megavolt jolt that electrified the 1980s art world, reports Harry Smith for Sunday Morning. A kid already rich and famous by the time he landed on the cover of ...

The owners of art dramatically seized by the FBI from a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at Orlando Museum of Art in 2022 now face a legal battle to collect their nearly $20 million insurance claim.