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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 22 December 1960
- Died
- 12 August 1988
- Part of
- 27 Club
- Place of birth
- Park Slope, Brooklyn
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Jean-Michel
- Family name
- Basquiat
- Movement
- neo-expressionism, primitivism
- Genre
- graffiti, figurative art
- Occupation
- painter, artivist, musicologist, record producer, composer, draftsperson, sculptor, graffiti artist, photographer, actor, architectural drafter, installation artist
- Citizenship
- United States
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- cause of death
- heroin overdose
- copyright representative
- reproduction right represented by CISAC-member
- described by source
- UbuWeb, National Gallery of Art Library Vertical Files, St. James Guide to Black Artists
- educated at
- John Jay Educational Campus, Saint Ann's School, City As School, Edward R. Murrow High School
- end of work period
- 1988
- ethnic group
- Puerto Ricans, Haitian Americans, African Americans
- has works in the collection
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of World Cultures, Metropolitan Museum of Art, David Bowie's art collection, Israel Museum, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Yale University Art Gallery, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Whitney Museum of American Art
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- accidental death
- member of
- Gray
- name in native language
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- participant in
- documenta 7
- place of burial
- Green-Wood Cemetery
- pseudonym
- Basquiat, Jean-Michel, Samo
- represented by
- Artists Rights Society
- sponsor
- Andy Warhol
- start of work period
- 1978
- topic has template
- Template:Jean-Michel Basquiat
- topic's main category
- Category:Jean-Michel Basquiat
- unmarried partner
- Madonna
- writing language
- English
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