They've both been about artist - "Basquiat and - goodness - "Before Night Falls.
Basquiat started out as a graffiti artist before finding fame as a contemporary artist.
Even more revealing were the responses of buyers to two Andy Warhol paintings and one by Jean Michel Basquiat.
Powerful works by Lucio Fontana, Gerhard Richter, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Egon Schiele all sold well, with some achieving record prices.
At Phillips, an untitled Basquiat charcoal and crayon work on paper shows a black man, Christ-like beneath a crown of thorns.
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And in that respect, at least, Basquiat has aced the Warhol test.
At Christie's, Basquiat's "Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)" (1983) carries the same estimate.
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Graffiti pictures by American star Jean-Michel Basquiat will be well to the fore, with their political undertones and emotional support of the black underdog.
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The Gagosian Gallery on West 24th Street in Chelsea, where a major show of Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings opened Thursday, was nearly empty Friday morning.
Basquiat and Warhol were close and actually painted some canvases jointly.
New records were also set for Franz Kline and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The top three were Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Gerhard Richter, while Gerhard Richter, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol had the most auction sales overall in 2012.
Classically-trained quintet Basquiat Strings have also been nominated for their eponymous album which saw them team up with Seb Rochford of the band Polar Bear, who were in line for the Mercury in 2005.
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Amongst the shows he has recently released in Chelsea are Yayoi Kusama (way before her Louis Vuitton partnership), Claude Monet, Richard Serra, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and currently, the Brooklyn native, Jean-Michel Basquiat!
Majewksi is drawn to bringing art to life: he wrote the screenplay for 1996 film " Basquiat, " about the life of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and directed 2004 film " The Garden of Earthly Delights, " which follows an art historian entering into Hieronymus Bosch's famous triptych.
The total capitalization of art works in its ranking went up 9% in 2012, while the number of new artists appearing in the ranking fell to 38 in 2012 from 8 'Untitled' by Jean-Michel Basquiat is on displ...1 in 2011, confirming the rather depressing trend that wealthy buyers are buying more expensive art from a smaller selection of established names.
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