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Selected Works470

Museum Acquisitions

14 Institutions
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Previous Sales 412

Christie's
Asbestos
Asbestos, 1982
$6,541,000
May 2026
Sotheby's
Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)
Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), 1983
Unknown
May 2026
Sotheby's
Law Offices – Notary Public
Law Offices – Notary Public, 1981
Unknown
Apr 2026
Christie's
Sans titre (Per Capita)
Sans titre (Per Capita), 1981
€381,000 ($419k USD)
Apr 2026
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1981
HK$22,216,000 ($2.8M USD)
Mar 2026
Sotheby's
Thin in the Old
Thin in the Old, 1986
£6,065,664 ($6.1M USD)
Mar 2026
Sotheby's
Crowns (Peso Neto)
Crowns (Peso Neto), 1981
$48,335,000
Nov 2025
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 1981
£665,886 ($666k USD)
Oct 2025
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1982
£508,000 ($671k USD)
Oct 2025
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1981
£277,200 ($366k USD)
Jun 2025
Sotheby's
Untitled (Indian Head)
Untitled (Indian Head), 1981
£8,977,855 ($9.0M USD)
Jun 2025
Sotheby's
Untitled (NY CZAR)
Untitled (NY CZAR), 1988
£997,750 ($998k USD)
Jun 2025
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 1981
$16,365,000
May 2025
Sotheby's
Gravestone
Gravestone, 1987
$5,174,000
May 2025
Christie's
Untitled (Ape)
Untitled (Ape), 1984
$504,000
May 2025
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1982
$390,600
May 2025
Christie's
Baby Boom
Baby Boom, 1982
$23,410,000
May 2025
Christie's
Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night)
Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night), 1984
HK$112,625,000 ($14M USD)
Mar 2025
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1981
£466,200 ($615k USD)
Mar 2025
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1981
£453,600 ($599k USD)
Mar 2025
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1983
£3,851,500 ($5.1M USD)
Mar 2025
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 1984
$889,000
Feb 2025
Sotheby's
Red Kings
Red Kings, 1981
$7,200,000
Nov 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled , 1981
$2,100,000
Nov 2024
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1982
$22,950,000
Nov 2024

Upcoming Auctions 1

Christie's
Untitled (Colored Boy Piano Player)
Untitled (Colored Boy Piano Player), 1987
Est. £300,000–£500,000
Jun 25, 2026

For Sale 1

Artetrama · Artsper
Trumpet Painting YP x JM Basquiat
Trumpet Painting YP x JM Basquiat
$637
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Market2,590 auction results

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$2.5K – $93M
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$6.3M
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$5.1M
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May 2026 · $6.5M
Latest priced sale: Asbestos - 70.2 x 49.2 cm - $1.9K/sq cm
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Paintings: $5.1M medianWorks on paper: $439K medianSculpture/objects: $32.3K medianPhotographs: $826K medianEditioned prints: $33.6K medianUnclassified lots: $50.4K medianPosters/ephemera: $3.8K medianBooks/portfolios: $960 median
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Podcast Interviews1

podcasts Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate - Lisane Basquiat & Jeanine Heriveaux - Season 17 - Episode 3 Talk Art · Jun 8, 2023
In a significant moment for Talk Art podcast, we meet the Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate - run by his sisters Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux. We explore the extraordinary, new Los Angeles exhibition 'Jean-Michel Basq…
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Biennial Selections1

São Paulo Biennial — São Paulo
1996 · The Dematerialization of Art at the End of the Millennium · curated by Nelson Aguilar
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Education1

Sir J.J. School of Art
Mumbai, India
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Publications27

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Catalogue Raisonné 1

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Skira · 2005

Monograph 8

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon
Thames & Hudson · 2025
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Rizzoli · 2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood
Hatje Cantz · 2022
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Hatje Cantz · 2019
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Words Are All We Have
Hatje Cantz · 2016
Andy Warhol: The Last Supper
Hatje Cantz · 1998
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Taschen
Jean-Michel Basquiat. 40th Ed.
Taschen

Exhibition Catalog 11

Keith Haring in 3D
Phaidon Press · 2024
Basquiat: The Modena Paintings
Hatje Cantz · 2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Prestel · 2022
Basquiat
Prestel · 2017
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
Rizzoli · 2015
Basquiat and the Bayou
Prestel · 2014
Jeanmichel Basquiat Drawing Work From The Schorr Family Collection
Rizzoli · 2014
Basquiat
Hatje Cantz · 2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Hatje Cantz · 2010
Andy Warhol: The Last Supper
Hatje Cantz · 1998
Collaborations Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente
Hatje Cantz · 1996

Group Catalog 1

Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection
Phaidon Press · 2024

Survey 6

How Painting Happens: and why it matters
Thames & Hudson · 2024
Icons: 100 Extraordinary Objects from Sotheby’s History
Phaidon Press · 2024
Mix & Match: Fashion Photography Meets Contemporary Art
Phaidon Press · 2024
Luna Luna: The Art Amusement Park
Phaidon Press · 2023
Art in Flower: Finding Inspiration in Art and Nature
Phaidon Press
The American Art Book
Phaidon Press
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Current Exhibitions1

#505 The Bonnier Gallery

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Selected Works 1978-1988

Jean-Michel Basquiat

51 NW 71st Street

May 9, 2026 — Jun 30, 2026

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#5,033 Il Chiostro Arte & Archivi

Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols

Basquiat

Via Dalmazia, 9, 21047 Saronno VA, Italy

Jun 25, 2026

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Past Exhibitions26

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#1,920 TAAG Gallery

Jean-Michel Basquiat / Editions

Jean-Michel Basquiat

229 10th Ave, New York, NY 10011, United States

Apr 30, 2026 — May 15, 2026

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#6,645 Taglialatella

Basquiat’s Editions | An Unforgettable Evening In The Gallery

229 10th Ave, New York, NY 10011, USA

Jan 1, 2026 — Apr 1, 2026

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#90 Guy Hepner

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Poetic Genius

Jean-Michel Basquiat

521 w 26th Street

Sep 4, 2025 — Nov 7, 2025

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#3,593 Galerie Enrico Navarra

Jean-Michel Basquiat – Untitled

Jean-Michel Basquiat

May 22, 2025 — Aug 2, 2025

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#1 Gagosian

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Venus, rue de Castiglione

Jean-Michel Basquiat

9 rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, France

Oct 17, 2024 — Jan 11, 2025

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#9,007 Galerie Bernard Dulon

Résonnance : Jean-Michel Basquiat et l’Univers Kongo

Jean-Michel Basquiat

10 Rue Jacques Callot, 75006 Paris, France

Sep 7, 2024 — Nov 19, 2024

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#1 Gagosian

Jean-Michel Basquiat Made on Market Street

Jean-Michel Basquiat

555 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, United States

Mar 7, 2024 — Jun 5, 2024

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#3,593 Galerie Enrico Navarra

Résonance, Jean-Michel Basquiat et l’Univers Kongo

Jean-Michel Basquiat

75 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France

Sep 7, 2022 — Nov 19, 2022

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#1,058 Nahmad Contemporary

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Apr 11, 2022 — Jun 11, 2022

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#1,399 Van de Weghe

Basquiat

Basquiat

Jun 25, 2021 — Aug 20, 2021

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The Andy Warhol Museum

Warhol and Basquiat In Focus: Works from the Permanent Collection

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat

117 Sandusky St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA

Jun 7, 2021 — Sep 20, 2021

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat — June 7, 2021 – September 20, 2021

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Writing the Future Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation

Jean-Michel Basquiat

465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Oct 18, 2020 — Jan 16, 2021

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#1,399 Van de Weghe

Basquiat Figures

Basquiat

Aug 1, 2020 — Aug 15, 2020

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#1,058 Nahmad Contemporary

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT | XEROX

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Mar 12, 2019 — May 31, 2019

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#4,564 Galerie Pascal Lansberg

Jean-Michel Basquiat du 5 Octobre au 30 Novembre 2018

Jean-Michel Basquiat

13 Rue Mandar, 75002 Paris, France

Oct 5, 2018 — Nov 30, 2018

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#1,058 Nahmad Contemporary

WORDS ARE ALL WE HAVE: PAINTINGS BY JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Jean-Michel Basquiat

May 2, 2016 — Jun 18, 2016

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Pérez Art Museum Miami

Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132, USA

Jan 1, 2016

Aug. 12 – Oct. 16, 2016 Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks

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Art Gallery of Ontario

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time

Jean-Michel Basquiat

317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

Jan 1, 2015

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time February 2 - May 10, 2015 Learn More

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#260 Acquavella Galleries

Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing Work from the Schorr Family Collection

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Apr 30, 2014 — Jun 12, 2014

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#1 Gagosian

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

7/F, Pedder Building, 12 Pedder St, Central, Hong Kong

May 21, 2013 — Aug 10, 2013

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#1,399 Van de Weghe

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Inaugural exhibition at Van de Weghe 1018 Madison

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Nov 7, 2008 — Dec 19, 2008

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Musée Maillol

Jean Michel Basquiat Paintings - The Story of an Oeuvre

59-61 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France

Jun 26, 2003 — Oct 23, 2003

Jean Michel Basquiat — June 26 2003 – October 23 2003

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Musée Maillol

Jean-Michel Basquiat Works on paper

59-61 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France

May 23, 1997 — Sep 29, 1997

Jean-Michel Basquiat — May 23 1997 – September 29 1997

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Glenstone Museum

Ties of our common kindred

Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, Kerry James Marshall, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, John Baldessari, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Vija Celmins, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Thomas Demand

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#4,564 Galerie Pascal Lansberg

Jean-Michel BASQUIAT 2010

Jean-Michel Basquiat

13 Rue Mandar, 75002 Paris, France

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#8,309 IKON Ltd. Contemporary Art

Spotlight – Basquiat Black Fool

Basquiat

9374 Sierra Mar Dr.

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Art Fair Appearances7

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Art Basel — Basel
2025
Art Basel Paris — Paris
2025
Frieze New York — New York
2025
Art Basel — Basel
2023
Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong
2023
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2022
Seattle Art Fair — Seattle
2016
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Jean-Michel Basquiat | Editions, 2026
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Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols
Jun 25, 2026
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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s voice still echoes through a Toronto exhibition decades after his death
May 31, 2026
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Can collections alone define an exhibition’s identity and meaning?
May 30, 2026
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Art Critic Anthony Haden-Guest Says Socialite–Collector Libbie Mugrabi Won’t Return His Cartoons
May 29, 2026
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A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work
May 28, 2026
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May 28, 2026
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The Shortlist: 7 Milwaukee art shows to put on your summer bucket list
May 27, 2026
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‘Prediction Markets’ Come to Art Auctions: Now You Can Bet on Basquiat and Monet, Courtesy of Kalshi
May 27, 2026
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Taiwanese Pop Star Is the Buyer of $20 M. Matisse Painting at Sotheby’s
May 26, 2026
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Lancaster gallery hosts exhibition of paintings and drawings from self-taught artist
May 26, 2026
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Ecco chi era il grande musicista jazz Miles Davis a 100 anni dalla nascita
May 25, 2026
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TEFAF New York 2026: Contemporary Gains Ground
May 22, 2026
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May 22, 2026
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May 21, 2026
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