“Untitled,” a Basquiat painting from 1982, sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction
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“Untitled,” a Basquiat painting from 1982, sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction on Thursday night.
The Sale of a Basquiat
“Untitled,” a Basquiat painting from 1982, sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction on Thursday night. Credit 2017 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, via Sotheby's
To the Editor:
Re “$110.5 Million Basquiat Sale Sets Records at Auction” (news article, May 19):
As his partner from 1981 to 1983 and lifelong friend, I was lucky enough to know Jean-Michel Basquiat, a brilliant and complex artist who, with this sale, is now in the upper echelon of the art world elite. My first thought was that Jean would not have liked this.
I think he would have hated to see his paintings, which are about subjugation, racism, greed and the underbelly of America, being exploited and acquired as the trophies and commodities of a billionaire.
But the other side of this is that he would have been exhilarated to see the world acknowledge the suffering that his paintings express and for the world to value this voice. Jean struggled to integrate this exhilarating and excruciating dialectic.
SUZANNE MALLOUK, NEW YORK
Source: www.nytimes.com
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