2026 Jean-Michel Basquiat Danish Art Exhibition Print. Printed in Denmark by Louisiana Museum. Featuring his work 'Untitled' (Bluto Nero) originally from 1982.

Size: 33.1”H x 23.4”W. 

Condition: Excellent condition.

About the Artist - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother. His mother introduced him to art as a child, taking him on journeys through the city to the Brooklyn Museum, the Met, and the Guggenheim, where mother and son would stand silently before paintings as though the pictures whispered secrets about the world. It was a tender foundation for a life that would become anything but stable. 

As a teenager he lived homeless on the streets of New York, making a name for himself through graffiti under the tag SAMO, before rocketing to the center of the city's art scene while barely out of his teens. He first approached Andy Warhol in a SoHo restaurant under the pretense of selling postcards. Warhol was struck by the talent on those tiny cards and took the young artist under his wing, introducing him to New York's most renowned galleries. Their relationship was electric but complicated. To many observers it seemed mutually exploitative, almost cynical, described by one Warhol assistant as "a crazy art-world marriage between the odd couple." When Warhol died in 1987, it reportedly devastated Basquiat, and he began using drugs far more heavily. 

Throughout his career, Basquiat's work confronted racism, poverty, and exploitation head-on. Themes drawn directly from his experience as a Black artist navigating a white-dominated art world. Since his death, critics have argued that his work has been co-opted and emptied of its political content, commodified into a cool aesthetic rather than the powerful opposition to inequality it was intended to be. In 2017 he posthumously beat Warhol to become the most expensive American artist, after his 1982 Untitled sold at Sotheby's for $110 million. He was just 27 when he died of a heroin overdose in 1988, leaving behind a body of work that burns as urgently today as it ever did.