Gazillionaire Collector Eli Broad's Unreasonably Goofy Memoir/Self-Help Book ... ARTINFO There was also the incident in which Jean-Michel Basquiat lit a joint in the Broads' bathroom, during that time in the '80s when they were "spending a lot of time in New York's East Village." I suppose the book is great fodder for beefing up Broad's ... |
No Sign of Financial Crisis at Postwar Art Sales New York Times Jean Michel Basquiat's “Ring,” done in the manner of a naughty schoolboy chalking cartoons on the blackboard in the master's absence, shot up to $7.64 million. In June 1999, at Christie's in Los Angeles, the Basquiat had cost the late collector ... |
 New York Post | Reel big art buy New York Post Doronin picked up Warhol's 1984 portrait of downtown artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, titled “Reel Basquiat” while sitting next to another avid art collector, Peter Brant (no word if Doronin bought it for his longtime girlfriend Naomi Campbell). |
 Wall Street Journal | Sotheby's Solid Sale Led by $44.9 Million Bacon, Lichtenstein Wall Street Journal 'Ring,' Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1981 painting of a spear-wielding boxer, sold for $7.6 million. Lichtenstein's 1964 "Sleeping Girl," a signature example of the artist's comic-book style, depicted a close-up of a pretty blonde woman with eyebrows ... No Sign of Financial Crisis at Postwar Art Sales SOTHEBY'S CONTEMPORARY DOES $266.6 MILLION |
Art Greenwich, to be held May 25th – 28th, promises a "next-generation ... Art Daily ... painter and printmaker Robert Motherwell, French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet, graffiti artists turned neo-expressionist painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Italian sculptor Marino Marini, American artist Jasper Johns and sculptor Louise Nevelson. |
Wall Street Journal | Sotheby's Solid Sale Led by $44.9 Million Bacon, Lichtenstein Wall Street Journal 'Ring,' Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1981 painting of a spear-wielding boxer, sold for $7.6 million. Lichtenstein's 1964 "Sleeping Girl," a signature example of the artist's comic-book style, depicted a close-up of a pretty blonde woman with eyebrows ... SOTHEBY'S CONTEMPORARY DOES $266.6 MILLION |
CHRISTIE'S CONTEMPORARY DOES A RECORD $388 MILLION Artnet Gagosian, by the way, snagged the final lot in the sale, Warhol's Frankensteinian portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat, for $3330500. Ugly? “It's red,” exclaimed auction observer Jessica Mizrachi. * Alexander Calder, Lily of Force, 1945, $18562500 (est. |
 ARTINFO | Christie's Postwar and Contemporary Sale Takes $388 Million, Led by a Record ... ARTINFO Christie's spectacular evening could have gone higher if two high-priced lots hadn't been withdrawn for undisclosed reasons at the eleventh hour, including Jean-Michel Basquiat's “Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)” (1983) (est. |
NiteTalk: Gregg Shienbaum Gallery Goes from Master to Urban NBC 6 Miami (blog) In more modern times Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and Blek le Rat started the trend. Now artists like Banksy, D-Face, Shepard Fairey, and many others become more mainstream. Who all will be included? For this exhibition I will have ... |
Exceptionally rare and important Contemporary art masterpieces to be sold at ... Art Daily Ring from 1981 is a striking self-portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat which portrays the artist as a warrior poised for battle in the boxing ring, his arrow raised and ready to strike (est. $4/6 million). The work which comes from the Forstmann Collection ... |