How did Jean Michel Basquaite convince ppl to buy his scribbles for millions?
- Thread starter Tom
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Yea someone got rich off that
and it wasnt his ass. Some snake oil salesman talking to some wealthy yuppies like *this is the premier in urban art. So juvenile in appearence, yet full of so much meaning and raw emotion**ill pay 10 million for all of his elementary school drawings * - wealthy cac.
- the janitor at the art galleryYea someone got rich off that
*ill pay 10 million for all of his elementary school drawings * - wealthy cac.
actually in his new documentary that dropped last year it said he was a millionaire and enjoyed success during his lifetime breh
Baracka Flocka Flame
Coast to Coast
Then he started shooting Heroin
Dead at 27
RIP
Dead at 27
RIP
I'd pay good money to hear the music that he made with the guy in my Avi...
and Basquiat convinced people to buy is Modern expressionist paintings the same way Mark Rothko got people to buy shyt like this...
and Basquiat convinced people to buy is Modern expressionist paintings the same way Mark Rothko got people to buy shyt like this...
Mr Uncle Leroy
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he had complex art and simple/doodling art...but it was really the message in his art which resonated...
Since Basquiat’s death in 1988, his market has developed steadily — in line with overall art market trends — with a dramatic peak in 2007 when, at the height of the art market boom, the global auction volume for his work was over $115m. Brett Gorvy, deputy chairman of Christie’s, is quoted describing Basquiat’s market as "two-tiered. [...] The most coveted material is rare, generally dating from the best period, 1981-83."[34] Until 2002, the highest money paid for an original work of Basquiat's was US$3,302,500, set on November 12, 1998 at Christie's.
In 2002, Basquiat's Profit I (1982), a large piece measuring 86.5"/220 cm by 157.5"/400 cm, was set for auction again at Christie's by drummer Lars Ulrich of the heavy metal band Metallica. It sold for US$5,509,500.[35] The proceedings of the auction are documented in the film Some Kind of Monster.
In 2008, at another auction at Christie's, Ulrich sold a 1982 Basquiat piece, Untitled (Boxer), for US$13,522,500 to an anonymous telephone bidder.[36] Another record price for a Basquiat painting was made on in 2007, when an untitled Basquiat work from 1981 sold at Sotheby's in New York for US$14.6 million.[37] In 2012, Basquiat's Untitled (1981), a painting of a haloed, black-headed man with a bright red skeletal body, depicted amid the artist’s signature scrawls, was sold by Robert Lehrman for $16.3 million, well above its $12 million high estimate.[38]
Since Basquiat’s death in 1988, his market has developed steadily — in line with overall art market trends — with a dramatic peak in 2007 when, at the height of the art market boom, the global auction volume for his work was over $115m. Brett Gorvy, deputy chairman of Christie’s, is quoted describing Basquiat’s market as "two-tiered. [...] The most coveted material is rare, generally dating from the best period, 1981-83."[34] Until 2002, the highest money paid for an original work of Basquiat's was US$3,302,500, set on November 12, 1998 at Christie's.
In 2002, Basquiat's Profit I (1982), a large piece measuring 86.5"/220 cm by 157.5"/400 cm, was set for auction again at Christie's by drummer Lars Ulrich of the heavy metal band Metallica. It sold for US$5,509,500.[35] The proceedings of the auction are documented in the film Some Kind of Monster.
In 2008, at another auction at Christie's, Ulrich sold a 1982 Basquiat piece, Untitled (Boxer), for US$13,522,500 to an anonymous telephone bidder.[36] Another record price for a Basquiat painting was made on in 2007, when an untitled Basquiat work from 1981 sold at Sotheby's in New York for US$14.6 million.[37] In 2012, Basquiat's Untitled (1981), a painting of a haloed, black-headed man with a bright red skeletal body, depicted amid the artist’s signature scrawls, was sold by Robert Lehrman for $16.3 million, well above its $12 million high estimate.[38]
Mr Uncle Leroy
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Thatrogueassdiaz
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Most in this thread are wrong about how Basquiat and his art were perceived in the 80s.
Basquiat became rich and popular while he was still alive. His downfall and his art becoming unpopular happened, again, while he was still alive.
I suggest everyone in here who is dissing him go check out his new documentary. I can't think of the name of it off-top, and I'm too lazy to link y'all nikkas. Look it up yourselves if you're interested.
And like that one poster said, it's more about the message in his art, as well as what he was trying to do to the artistic establishment. He was making street/urban art just as artistically relevant as high-cultured art; and he succeeded.
Basquiat became rich and popular while he was still alive. His downfall and his art becoming unpopular happened, again, while he was still alive.
I suggest everyone in here who is dissing him go check out his new documentary. I can't think of the name of it off-top, and I'm too lazy to link y'all nikkas. Look it up yourselves if you're interested.
And like that one poster said, it's more about the message in his art, as well as what he was trying to do to the artistic establishment. He was making street/urban art just as artistically relevant as high-cultured art; and he succeeded.
white people slay me I swear ....dude goes in on Basquiat and a bunch of c00ns who know nothing of art rush in and co-sign
how come this clown doesnt mention Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock number five was sold for $140 million dollars , wheres the artistic merit in this
how come dude doesnt mention Damien Hirst the richest living painter who has made a fortune of spot paintings which he doent even make himself but has his assistants do the work
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9010657/Damien-Hirst-assistants-make-my-spot-paintings-but-my-heart-is-in-them-all.html
Basqiuaits art was very esoteric and his paintings spoke of the "black" experience which you as a cac could never understand, the fact that you choose to poke fun of one of the few lauded black painters speaks volumes
maybe you should read up on the meaning of his painting Charles the !st which also inspired the Jay z grammy family freestyle before you pass judgement
or hollywood Africans
or "the irony of the black policeman...
my point is his art wasnt just a bunch of scribbles there was actual meaning behind it ....
how come this clown doesnt mention Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock number five was sold for $140 million dollars , wheres the artistic merit in this
how come dude doesnt mention Damien Hirst the richest living painter who has made a fortune of spot paintings which he doent even make himself but has his assistants do the work
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9010657/Damien-Hirst-assistants-make-my-spot-paintings-but-my-heart-is-in-them-all.html
Basqiuaits art was very esoteric and his paintings spoke of the "black" experience which you as a cac could never understand, the fact that you choose to poke fun of one of the few lauded black painters speaks volumes
maybe you should read up on the meaning of his painting Charles the !st which also inspired the Jay z grammy family freestyle before you pass judgement
or hollywood Africans
or "the irony of the black policeman...
my point is his art wasnt just a bunch of scribbles there was actual meaning behind it ....