Jean-Michel Basquiat Neo-Expressionist...

Updated August 12, 2026

Composition Oil on Canvas. Title: Urban Symbolic Composition Technique: Acrylic on canvas Measures: 32 x 32 inches (81.3 x 81.3 cm) Year: Contemporary Condition: Good overall condition with surface characteristics consistent with the medium and expressive application of paint. Visible variations in texture, markings, and pigment throughout. Please review all photographs as they form an integral part of the condition description. Provenance: Private collection, Buffalo, New York, USA. Visual Description: A densely worked urban composition developed across a predominantly ochre-yellow ground and filled with fragmented words, numbers, dollar signs, crowns, crosses, skeletal figures, architectural forms, and rapidly drawn linear elements. References to money, blood, streets, oil, and loss create a layered visual narrative concerned with commerce, identity, mortality, and contemporary urban life. The raw execution, graffiti-like inscriptions, repeated crown imagery, anatomical figures, and juxtaposition of text and image recall the Neo-Expressionist and street-art vocabulary associated with Jean-Michel Basquiat.This hand-created artwork offers collectors an opportunity to enjoy the visual language, technique, composition, and artistic characteristics associated with the named artist at a substantially more accessible price point than authenticated works by that artist, which may command significantly higher prices in the established fine-art market. Offered “in the style of” the named artist, the work should be appreciated and valued on its own merits as a hand-created piece inspired by an important artistic tradition. It provides an accessible way to acquire a visually compelling artwork reflecting the aesthetic qualities associated with a celebrated artist without the price expectations attached to an authenticated work.This artwork is uncatalogued and unauthenticated and has not been authenticated or approved by the named artist, their estate, foundation, catalogue raisonné committee, or other recognized authority. It is offered “in the style of” the named artist, a cataloging opinion describing stylistic characteristics and not a representation of authorship or authenticity. Any provenance reflects information accompanying the artwork when received and is not a certificate of authenticity. Any signature, inscription, stamp, date, or other marking should not be considered authentication. ESTIMATED VALUE: Any estimate represents the auction house’s good-faith opinion of the potential secondary-market value of the property based on factors such as medium, size, condition, subject, provenance information, visual characteristics, and comparable uncatalogued and unauthenticated works. Estimates are not based on the value of authenticated works by the named artist and are not appraisals, guarantees of value, or predictions of the final selling price.

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