Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled sold for --- $28,974,511.----- - TopicsExpress



          

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled sold for --- $28,974,511.----- yesterday in London......... An epic large-scale double portrait from 1982, a pivotal year in the artist’s career, it forms part of the series of important double portraits, including Untitled (Two Heads on Gold) and Dustheads (which set the current record price for the artist at auction when it sold at Christie’s New York in May). ..............The full-length double portraits of 1982 marked Basquiat’s coming of age in the art world. In 1982 he was 21, he had just met his idol Andy Warhol, and the success of his gallery show at Annina Nosei that March gave him a new-found freedom, enabling him to earn a living from his paintings. The dancing figures in this work evoke the joyous spirit of this heady time when Basquiat had just broken through to art world super-star status.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:27:29 +0000

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