Tycoon loans Basquiat masterpiece to Brooklyn
China Daily | Updated: 2018-01-16 07:50
NEW YORK - A Basquiat masterpiece, bought by a Japanese billionaire for a record $110.5 million, will make its museum debut this month, going on display in the artist's home borough of Brooklyn.
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 Untitled has been virtually unseen in public and never previously been exhibited in a museum. It depicts a skull-like head in oil-stick, acrylic and spray paint, and was bought at Sotheby's last May by Yusaku Maezawa.
The $110.5 million price tag set a new auction record for Basquiat and a record for the work of any US artist at auction.
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