Shooting Star: Jean-Michel Basquiat
- 1990
- 52m
The life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rose from New York graffitist to celebrated artist in a few years, his works selling for hundreds of thousand of dollars. He was the most famou... Read allThe life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rose from New York graffitist to celebrated artist in a few years, his works selling for hundreds of thousand of dollars. He was the most famous black artist in America, before his death from a heroin overdose in 1988, aged 28.The life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rose from New York graffitist to celebrated artist in a few years, his works selling for hundreds of thousand of dollars. He was the most famous black artist in America, before his death from a heroin overdose in 1988, aged 28.