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June 4th, 2012
A self-portrait by the late Jean-Michel Basquiat is expected to fetch $20 million in the June 27 Christie’s International sale of postwar and contemporary art in London. “The vivid acrylic, oilstick and spray-paint canvas will be offered after another untitled 1981 work sold for an artist-record $16.3 million at Phillips de Pury & Co. in New York, on May 10.”
Read the article via Bloomberg News
June 4th, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Basquiat’s self portrait…or is it really a self portrait… is full of angst and fear. But yet it is such a compelling painting. Thanks for posting it!