Jean-Michel Basquiat Mixed Media/Collage on Board. Dimensions 12 in X 10 1/2 in. Private Collection. Attributed to: Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Born in Brooklyn to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO©, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 199

Good Condition. Framed