All posts tagged: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Record-Breaking 0.5 M. Basquiat Painting to Go on View in Miami

Record-Breaking $110.5 M. Basquiat Painting to Go on View in Miami

Published by José Betancourt

The Pérez Art Museum Miami announced this week that it will host an exhibition bringing together about 10 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat that are owned by Kenneth C. Griffin, one of the world’s top collectors. Titled “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” the exhibition will feature nine paintings and one sculpture by the artist and concentrate on his “implementation of classic themes such as portraiture and the figure, script and language, and his conceptual amplification of color, form, and composition,” according to a release. Related Articles “Figures, Signs, Symbols” is curated by PAMM director Franklin Sirmans, who was a cocurator of a traveling show on the artist that debuted at the Brooklyn Museum in 2005, and Megan Kincaid, who is the museum’s collection curator. Griffin is providing support to realize the show via his Griffin Catalyst initiative. “At PAMM, this exhibition feels both inevitable and vital,” Sirmans said in a statement. “Miami’s layered histories, diasporic communities, and global outlook create a context where Basquiat’s visual language—rooted in memory, migration, and cultural hybridity—can be experienced with particular depth and …

M. Basquiat Painting Heads to Sotheby’s: ‘A Storied Masterpiece’

$45 M. Basquiat Painting Heads to Sotheby’s: ‘A Storied Masterpiece’

Published by José Betancourt

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will head to auction at Sotheby’s this May with an estimate “in excess of $45 million,” the house announced on Monday, poising it to become one of the most expensive works by the artist ever to hit the block. The painting, titled Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) and dated to 1983, last sold at auction in 2013, when it was featured in a Christie’s sale in London. It was purchased by an unnamed buyer for $14.6 million; the painting’s value now appears to have increased threefold. Related Articles Between 2013 and 2018, the painting was on long-term loan to the Fondation Beyeler, a museum in Riehen, Switzerland, known for its high-quality surveys for blue-chip artists. Then, in 2019, it appeared in a Basquiat show staged at a private museum in New York owned by collector Peter Brant, whose holdings are known to include many key works by Basquiats. It’s unclear if Brant is the seller of the work because Sotheby’s did not name the individual or entity that had consigned the …