Basquiat's 'Untitled' Painting Sells For $110 Million, The Most Ever Paid For An American Artwork

[godliness]

Man bro was so talented . I need to hit that lvl one day.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Funny thing is, if a child drew these in school they would recommend therapy

 

[levitate]

@DrX work is legitimately better...

 

[mortuus est]

Funny thing is, if a child drew these in school they would recommend therapy

im sure most schools taught surrealism art before the 1980s..............................................right??

 

[feelosofer]

Dude was a brilliant artist. Not surprised.

 

[Faneto4]

yall really in here disrespecting Basquiat..
read a book

stop comparing him..he was a genius...he made it because he was hustler...and literally came from rags to riches .

 

[Neuromancer]

Da God

 

[froggle]

Do none of y'all know the point of a huge chunk of Basquiat's art?
There's no way you Negroes have missed out on the themes of anti-Blackness, government subversion, depression, colonialism, drug addiction, Communism, etc.
Dude was the voice of a group of people squeezed out by gentrifiers, capitalists, wealthy Whites

There are also black artists out there using their art to speak on some of the same issues you highlighted and they are very talented. They are not getting millions because why?

That's why I said for me I realized art is subjective. Because white people cosign it and he rolled wid Warhol? Everybody tries to be high brow in life and when u look past the facade your like it is all B.S. at the end of the day

The French serve polenta as fine dining. In Jamaica that same polenta is fed to dogs

 

[BlackBall]

The shyt they call art.

The world don't make sense why should art? It's all meaningless bullshyt

 

[frush11]

This is why I can't take "Art" seriously.

 

[Faneto4]

This is why I can't take "Art" seriously.

cuz the art world is dying to get ur approval

 

[Standing on business]

Can someone give be the backstory on why this warhol is so iconic? All my eyes see is paintings of Campbell soup

 

[Majestic]

That painting is not worth 110 mill. As someone stated it's money Laundering. Much like Real Estate in NYC( my industry) these Roch folks just need to park their money. Either to avoid taxes or launder ill gotten funds OR to straight up hide money. We have apartments selling for 100 million that the owner has never stepped foot in and it's under some weird LLC and shyt. The higher the price the more money you can dump at it.

Can u explain this further? How does art go side to side with money laundering and tax avoidance? Also Doesn't the value of art decrease when u buy it meaning you'll money when you sell it after a few years?

 

[Majestic]

Who gets the money? His estate?

 

[Luken]

so the coli jumped the shark again?

we're hating on Basquiat now, the carribiean breh who wasnt afraid to display his blackness on front street?