Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ’Untitled’, 1981

Simon de Pury presents Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ’Untitled’, 1981, a masterpiece of neo-expressionist painting that is radical in that it is a gorgeous and profound self-portrait made when the artist was just twenty-one years old. This work sold for $16,322,500 at the Phillips de Pury & Company Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York, 10 May 2012. More: