A simple street artist, sometimes slept in a cardboard box, suddenly becomes famous and rich. And at the age of 27 at the peak of fame, dies from a heroin overdose. The story opens on Broadway

such plans-known new-йоркских producers Barbara and Alan Marks reported Artnet. Two sisters Jean-Мишеля Basquiat —, Lisan and Jeanine — gave the green light for production, making sure that the story of their brother will be told with due respect.

write Music Jean Baptiste (Jon Batiste), leader of the band Stay Human.

Jean-Мишель Basquiat — the star of the new-йоркского of neo-expressionism 1980-х years. He had a difficult childhood, but not enough to live on the street. Basquiat ran away from home, sleeping in boxes, and in the afternoon painted the walls with their graffiti. According to legend (at least shown in the film Julian Schnabel), once he was able to show my card-рисунки legendary gallerists Bruno Bishofbergera and Leo Castelli. They noticed the talent and gave the opportunity to work comfortably and introduced Basquiat in Bohemia new-Йорка. The artist worked for wear, as if anticipating the imminent end. For 10 years he created a great number of works. There was even a joke that Basquiat writes faster than Warhol prints. Warhol, incidentally, was his best friend, they even had a series of joint works. There is a version that is the death of Warhol in 1987 psychologically greatly undermined the Basquiat. He again turned to drugs and in the summer of 1988 made a fatal mistake.

Today, Basquiat is in the top-10 the most expensive artists of the world after his picture for $110 487 500 I bought a Japanese businessman and collector of Yusaku Maezawa (which in 2023 go to the moon).

Basquiat was not the first artist, whose fate has attracted the attention of Broadway. Soon the new-йоркских the stage show, the musical "Lempicka" — on the native of the Russian Empire, Tamara de Lempicka, which is in the ranking of the most expensive artists of the orbit of Russian art.

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Source: news.artnet.com