Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22 1960, Brooklyn - August 12, 1988, New York, New York) was an American artist. He gained fame, first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a highly successful Neo-expressionist artist in the international art scene of the 1980s. Many recognize Basquiat as a leading figure in contemporary art, and his paintings continue to command high prices in the art market. Wikipedia
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"The only thing the market liked better than a hot young artist was a dead hot young artist, and it got one in Jean-Michel Basquiat , whose working life of about nine years was truncated by a heroin overdose at the age of twenty-seven. His career, both a www.artchive.com/artchive/B/basquiat.html
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. At an early age, he showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn M www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/
V ery little criticism has been done examining the work produced by Jean-Michel Basquiat . While his place in the history of American art is still under dispute, it cannot be denied that during the eight years that he painted, his much of his work examin english.emory.edu/Bahri/Basquiat.html
Noted for his graffiti street paintings under the name pseudonym 'SAMO', Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn. His father was Haitian-born Gerard Basquiat . His mother, Matilde Andradas , had been born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. He had t www.askart.com/askart/b/jeanmichel_basquiat/jeanmichel_ba...
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Gerard Basquiat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and his mother, Matilde was born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. Jean-Michel Basquiat 's productive career spann www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/basquiat.html
New York City graffiti artist turned art world sensation, Jean-Michel Basquiat (using the tag SAMO, which means: Same Old Shit)was a self-taught African American painter who died in 1988 of a drug overdose at the age of 27. In the ten years before his de www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F059-BBCF-11D4-...