A Basquiat painting recently sold for $110.5 million. The exorbitant price tags of expensive art serve an important and nefarious social function ...

Basquiat Tops Phillips Contemporary Sale at $85 Million “Basquiat is not just an artist; for a lot of the people out there, he’s a religion,” one dealer said.

A Basquiat art piece from the the Christie's catalog. Christie’s proceeded with its Jean-Michel Basquiat sale despite a $1 million suit filed by siblings of the late artist claiming the ...

The marquee New York evening auctions came to a close on Thursday with a strong $106.5 million sale of 21st century art at Christie's, led by a $23 million drawing by auction stalwart Jean-Michel ...

The sale didn’t break the $110.5 million record for a Basquiat, held by an untitled blue work from 1982 that Mr. Maezawa won in 2017.

Two Basquiat works—a skull painting at Christie's and another inspired by the Medicis at Sotheby's—could bring in more than $100 million.

An untitled Jean-Michel Basquiat painting of a skull sold for $110.5 million at a contemporary art sale at Sotheby's Thursday night in New York, the highest price ever paid at auction for a piece ...

An auction house says an important early work by graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is going up for sale in New York.

LONDON—Christie's post-war and contemporary-art sale on Tuesday proved that the world's wealthy collectors are confident that the art market is solidly out of its slump, regardless of the ...