This isn’t just a skull. It’s Basquiat at full velocity. Painted in 1982 — the single most important year of his career — Untitled captures the moment before the market, before the mythology, before control. What looks like death is actually pressure, identity, history, and life colliding on canvas. That’s why this work sold for $110,000,000. Not because of scale. Not because of shock. But because collectors understand that in blue-chip art, narrative is value. 1982 Basquiat isn’t an aesthetic preference. It’s evidence.
This Basquiat once sold for $110 million — but here’s the real reason collectors covet it.
This isn’t just a skull. It’s Basquiat at full velocity....
