‘Tobacco versus Red Chief’, 1981-82, is one of the earliest paintings made by Jean-Michel Basquiat during his brief yet prolific career. In the 1970s, Basquiat gained attention as a graffiti artist ...

The highest price seen for a Basquiat work at auction was another Untitled work from 1982 dominated by a large, angry head against a similar royal blue background. It sold for US$110 million ...

Basquiat, who lived and worked in New York City, found success in the 1980s as part of the neo-Expressionism movement. Questions about the artworks’ authenticity arose almost immediately after ...

The owners of art dramatically seized by the FBI from a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at Orlando Museum of Art in 2022 now face a legal battle to collect their nearly $20 million insurance claim.