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The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s brief but dazzling life, as told by an art-world insider

A former Christie’s president examines the meteoric rise of the “radiant child”, and his legacy following his untimely death

Georgina Adam
4 November 2025
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Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982, just before his career as an artist was about to take off—and six years before his tragic death

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Jean-Michel Basquiatarchive
1 February 2014

Dealers circle Basquiat’s estate

There are “all kinds of rumours swirling” around the estate of the graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Rachel Corbett
Jean-Michel Basquiatarchive
1 November 1992

Whitney compares Basquiat to Leonardo da Vinci in new retrospective

Music Television and Madonna sponsor her late lover

David D'Arcy