THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
The star of Christie’s Postwar and Contemporary Art auction on May 10, 2016 was Untitled, a monumental self portrait by Jean-Michael Basquiat painted in 1982 – considered his most important year. In the painting Basquiat portrayed himself as a demonic figure, centrally focused as is often the case in Basquiat’s work, surrounded by splashes of paint …