Beautiful lithograph by Jean Michel Basquiat. The lithograph is an edition of Rupert Jasen Smith and provided with the dry stamp of Rupert Jasen Smith and  artist's signature stamp;

• Numbered on 100 copies
• Work format: 50 x 70

Jean-Michel Basquiat's dramatic life and iconic paintings, a life of alternating obsessive scribbles, enigmatic symbols and diagrams, and iconography including skulls, masks and the artist's signature crown – make him one of the most famous artists of the 20th century.

The self-taught painter embraced graffiti before plunging into studio practice. He found a mentor and friend in Andy Warhol, who helped the young artist navigate the New York art world of the 1980s.

In his oeuvre Basquiat drew on his own Caribbean heritage; a convergence of African American, African and Aztec cultural histories; classical themes; and pop cultural figures, including athletes and musicians. The immediacy and intellectual depth of his paintings won him much acclaim, both before and after his untimely death at the age of 27.

Basquiat's paintings now belong to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney, among others, the Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2017, Basquiat's Untitled (1982) $ brought in 110.5 million at auction, becoming the most expensive work of art by an American artist to ever sell.