"Warrior" was sold for $41.7m just weeks ago, making it the most expensive western Artwork sold in Asia.

en.thevalue.com/articles/basquiat-warrior-christies-hong-kong-we-are-all-warriors-auction-result

kinda makes me sick bc he talked sm about black exploitation in art

oh the irony of the world

thats why hes the GOAT

That's usually how it goes for celebrated artists

dont forget the founder of zozotown but one for 110m a few years ago

Love the work strokes picked for new abnormal cover

Man should get that money when he's still alive

I have one of his pieces on my wall in the living room

He's in my top 3 artists OAT

where can u get basquiat repros at?

I'm pretty sure I got this on Wish for like $20

Have had it for a couple years now

That’s not what prolific means but

ITS THE ROC!

fire

fire and love the cat statue

Hard

Artists today are capturing some of their value, like Hirst, KAWS, etc.

gotta be the most dapper KTT user i've seen

salute

Pull up

Ayy man I appreciate that

one of my favorite works of his

love the layers to his critiques of capitalism in it s*** is mindblowing

They don’t love you til you’re gone

He was prolific when he was alive. Of course the value of his worked increased after his death but he wasn't a starving artist. He was earning over $1 million a year before he was 25. He was the youngest artist to ever take part in documenta in Kassel at the age of 21. At 22, he was the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. At 25, he was the youngest artist given an exhibition at Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover. He also collaborated with Andy Warhol, one of the most famous artist of all time. I think Basquiat would've had a good laugh that he surpassed Warhol with a new record high for an American artist at auction.

His top 3 paintings at auction are

1. Untitled (1982) - sold for $110.5 million in 2017

2. In This Case (1983) - sold for $93.1 million in 2021

3. Untitled (Devil) (1982) - sold for $57.3 million in 2016

Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump (1982) was purchased privately by Ken Griffin for over $100 million in 2020

His paintings always felt like they were ancient artifacts or something like that to me.

Something very tribal & mystic about them. Like Egyptian glyphs, cave paintings, aztec sculptures etc. Stuff from a time we cant fully understand, but know there is something deep to it.

Crazy its all within 50/60 years from today.

Full Movie right here.