Jean-Michel Basquiat: Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)

By 1983, Basquiat was no longer the kid spray-painting SAMO© on SoHo walls. He was one of the most talked-about painters in the world, and he knew it. Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) is the proof: a nearly seven-foot canvas packed with oil stick, collage, and the full force of his visual language, asking, in plain text, who gets to decide what's priceless and who gets to guard the door. The canvas is loaded with his signature iconography: crossed-out words, a three-point crown, a skull-like head with red-rimmed eyes staring back at you. The work spent years on loan to the Fondation Beyeler and anchored Louis Vuitton's landmark 2018 retrospective. Now it's heading to auction this May for the first time in over a decade.

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