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A 40x30" painting of jean Michel Basquiat. Original painting for sale.

Jean-Michel Basquiat December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.

Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he was one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992.

Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and...

Welcome to my Gallery. I am an artist based in Norwich, UK. My work is a mixture of my passion for music, portraiture and graffiti art. My original paintings are available directly via my Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/RichardDayStudio Or get in touch via Email: richarddayart@gmail.com