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1. Jean-Michel Basquiat › Date of death

   • August 12, 1988

2. www.moma.org › artists › 370Jean-Michel Basquiat | MoMA

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   Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. ... Since his death at the age of 27 in 1988, Basquiat's work has steadily increased in value. In 2017, Untitled, a 1982 painting ...

3. www.npr.org › it-could-have-been-me-the-1983-death-of-a-nyc-graffiti-artist'It Could Have Been Me': The 1983 Death Of A NYC Graffiti Artist

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   Sep 16, 2013 · These were the words uttered by painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was deeply shaken after he heard the story of a black graffiti artist who was beaten to death by New York City police.

4. www.bbc.com › culture › articleJean-Michel Basquiat: The life and work behind the legend - BBC

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   Jul 9, 2015 · Jean-Michel Basquiat was just 27 in 1988 when this portrait was taken. He died of a heroin overdose later that year (Credit: Julio Donoso/Sygma/Corbis)

5. www.artnews.com › feature › who-was-jean-michel-basquiat-why-was-he-importantWho Was Jean-Michel Basquiat? Why Was He Important? - ARTnews.com

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   Dec 22, 2020 · Despite his outsized reputation, Basquiat’s career did not last long—he died at 27 of a heroin overdose in 1988. According to Phoebe Hoban’s book Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, the artist ...

6. www.britannica.com › biography › Jean-Michel-BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat | Neo-Expressionist Painter, Graffiti Artist

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   6 days ago · Jean-Michel Basquiat (born December 22, 1960, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died August 12, 1988, New York City) was an American painter known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text.

7. www.nytimes.com › 1988/08/15 › obituariesJean Basquiat, 27, An Artist of Words And Angular Images

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   Aug 15, 1988 · Jean Michel Basquiat, a Brooklyn-born artist whose brief career leaped from graffiti scrawled on SoHo foundations to one-man shows in galleries around the world, died Friday at his home in the ...

8. whitney.org › artists › 69Jean-Michel Basquiat | Whitney Museum of American Art

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   Since his death at the age of 27 in 1988, Basquiat's work has steadily increased in value. In 2017, Untitled , a 1982 painting depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased.