A Japanese billionaire has bought a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting for $110.5 million, the highest ever price paid at auction for a work by an American artist.

Basquiat's Untitled (1982) sold for a record-setting $110.5 million this week. The painting, however, is actually worth much more than mere money.

A portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat, painted on the door of the apartment where he was staying during a sojourn in Dallas in 1985, was recently acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA).

It’s not every day that New York has two Basquiat exhibitions. At “Art and Objecthood,” decoding the basics: his materials, iconography and unmistakable line.

Maezawa broke his own record just a year later when bought another 1982 Basquiat painting for $110.5 million (it was also the most expensive work by an American artist to sell at auction until ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of art’s shooting stars, a painter who developed a flashy early style and then flamed out, dying in 1988 of a drug overdose at the age of 27. That alone makes him ...

It’s just the latest in her scandal-ridden life - Exclusive: New York socialite Libbie Mugrabi says she is being extorted over a Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece worth $30 million. The Independent ...

On June 24, the 25-piece Basquiat collection was seized by the FBI from the Orlando Museum of Art, where they were in an exhibit called Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat.On June 28, Aaron De ...

Basquiat plainly harbored that emotion even as, for art’s sake, he burlesqued it, packing spaces around and amid the vehement black lines with abstract fiestas of white, red, blue, and yellow.