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  • 1. What nationality was Jean-Michel Basquiat?
A) French
B) American
C) Italian
D) British
  • 2. In what year was Basquiat born?
A) 1960
B) 1980
C) 1970
D) 1950
  • 3. Which artistic movement was Basquiat associated with?
A) Neo-expressionism
B) Minimalism
C) Surrealism
D) Cubism
  • 4. What was Basquiat's graffiti artist tag name?
A) BANKSY
B) KEITH HARING
C) STERLING RUBY
D) SAMO
  • 5. What was Basquiat's father's profession?
A) Painter
B) Architect
C) Accountant
D) Musician
  • 6. At what age did Basquiat first exhibit his artwork in a public exhibition?
A) 13
B) 17
C) 25
D) 21
  • 7. Which artist was a close friend of Basquiat and also tragically died young?
A) Keith Haring
B) Robert Rauschenberg
C) Cy Twombly
D) Jasper Johns
  • 8. Which museum held a major retrospective of Basquiat's work in 1992?
A) Whitney Museum of American Art
B) Tate Modern
C) Guggenheim Museum
D) The Louvre
  • 9. In what year did Basquiat achieve international fame?
A) 1990
B) 2005
C) 1982
D) 1975
  • 10. Which famous artist did Basquiat collaborate with on paintings in the 1980s?
A) Jackson Pollock
B) Andy Warhol
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Pablo Picasso
  • 11. In which city was Jean-Michel Basquiat born?
A) Miami
B) Chicago
C) New York City
D) Los Angeles
  • 12. At what age did Basquiat become the youngest artist to take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany?
A) 25
B) 21
C) 30
D) 18
  • 13. What themes did Basquiat's art often focus on?
A) Portraits of celebrities
B) Abstract patterns
C) Wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience
D) Nature and landscapes
  • 14. In what year did an Untitled painting by Basquiat sell for $110.5 million?
A) 2020
B) 2008
C) 1999
D) 2017
  • 15. What was the name of the book Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marc Prozzo created when he was seven?
A) Basquiat's Diary
B) The Art of Graffiti
C) The Adventures of SAMO
D) A children's book written by Basquiat at age seven and illustrated by Prozzo
  • 16. What injury did Basquiat sustain in 1968?
A) Burns
B) Broken arm and several internal injuries requiring a splenectomy
C) Concussion
D) Fractured leg
  • 17. Which languages was Basquiat fluent in by the age of 11?
A) French, Spanish, and English
B) Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish
C) German, Italian, and Russian
D) Japanese, Chinese, and Korean
  • 18. Where did Basquiat's family move to in 1974?
A) Miami, Florida
B) Houston, Texas
C) Los Angeles, California
D) Miramar, Puerto Rico
  • 19. What school did Basquiat attend after moving back to Brooklyn in 1976?
A) Edward R. Murrow High School
B) Stuyvesant High School
C) Brooklyn Technical High School
D) Queens High School for the Sciences
  • 20. What alternative high school did Basquiat enroll in?
A) High School of Art and Design
B) City-As-School
C) Stuyvesant High School
D) Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
  • 21. What was the original meaning behind the acronym 'SAMO'?
A) Street Art Movement Organization
B) Save Art, Make Ourselves Known
C) Society of American Modernists
D) 'Same old shit'
  • 22. Which publication featured an article about the SAMO graffiti in December 1978?
A) High Times
B) The Village Voice
C) Artforum
D) Rolling Stone
  • 23. On which television show did Basquiat appear in 1979, hosted by Glenn O'Brien?
A) Late Night with David Letterman
B) The Tonight Show
C) Saturday Night Live
D) TV Party
  • 24. Which band did Basquiat and Michael Holman found in April 1979?
A) The Clash
B) The Ramones
C) Test Pattern
D) Gray
  • 25. Where did Basquiat live with his girlfriend Alexis Adler during the late 1970s?
A) East Village
B) Lower Manhattan
C) Harlem
D) Greenwich Village
  • 26. What type of diagrams did Basquiat often copy from Alexis Adler's textbooks?
A) Anatomical diagrams
B) Biological cell diagrams
C) Chemical compound diagrams
D) Mathematical equations
  • 27. Where did Basquiat sell his postcards in SoHo?
A) Hurrah
B) Max's Kansas City
C) CBGB
D) W.P.A. restaurant
  • 28. What was the title of the postcard sold to Andy Warhol?
A) MAN MADE
B) Stupid Games, Bad Ideas
C) The State of the Outlaw Art
D) SAMO© AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GOD
  • 29. What was the name of Basquiat's clothing line created at A's?
A) "GRAY"
B) "TEST PATTERN"
C) "MAN MADE"
D) "SAMO"
  • 30. Which boutique carried Basquiat's clothing line in November 1979?
A) Patricia Field's upscale boutique
B) Annina Nosei Gallery
C) The Limelight Storefront
D) Maxfield Parrish Gallery
  • 31. In which year did Jean-Michel Basquiat participate in The Times Square Show?
A) 1979
B) 1980
C) 1981
D) 1982
  • 32. Who mentioned Basquiat in an article titled 'Report from Times Square'?
A) Diego Cortez
B) Rene Ricard
C) Jeffrey Deitch
D) Sandro Chia
  • 33. Which magazine published Rene Ricard's article 'The Radiant Child'?
A) Artforum
B) Vogue
C) Rolling Stone
D) Art in America
  • 34. What was the title of Basquiat's first painting sold to Debbie Harry?
A) Rapture
B) Downtown 81
C) Cadillac Moon
D) Radiant Child
  • 35. Who financially supported Jean-Michel Basquiat during his early career?
A) Debbie Harry
B) Suzanne Mallouk
C) Emilio Mazzoli
D) Annina Nosei
  • 36. Which gallery did Annina Nosei invite Basquiat to join?
A) Her own gallery
B) P.S.1
C) Fashion Moda
D) Gallery in Modena
  • 37. Where was Basquiat's first American one-man show held?
A) Collaborative Projects Incorporated
B) Annina Nosei Gallery
C) P.S.1
D) Modena gallery
  • 38. What was the reason Basquiat gave for canceling his second Italian exhibition?
A) He felt exploited due to tight deadlines.
B) Lack of interest from the public
C) Poor sales at previous exhibitions
D) Disagreement with the curator
  • 39. Who recommended Basquiat's work to Italian dealer Emilio Mazzoli?
A) Sandro Chia
B) Rene Ricard
C) Jeffrey Deitch
D) Annina Nosei
  • 40. In which music video did Basquiat appear as a disc jockey?
A) 'Radiant Child'
B) 'Cadillac Moon'
C) Blondie's 'Rapture'
D) 'Downtown 81'
  • 41. What was the record high for Basquiat's annual auction sales in 2021?
A) $115 million
B) $439.6 million
C) $110.5 million
D) $20.1 million
  • 42. How many of Basquiat's works did Emilio Mazzoli purchase in 1981?
A) Ten
B) Twenty
C) Fifteen
D) Five
  • 43. Which jazz musician was particularly a hero for Basquiat?
A) Miles Davis
B) John Coltrane
C) Charlie Parker
D) Louis Armstrong
  • 44. Who did Basquiat befriend in Paris during his exhibition?
A) Ivorian artist Ouattara Watts
B) Francesco Clemente
C) Glenn O'Brien
D) Keith Haring
  • 45. What was the name of the imprint under which Jean-Michel Basquiat pressed the limited edition 'Beat Bop' record?
A) Interview
B) Whitney Biennial
C) Gemini G.E.L.
D) Tartown Inc.
  • 46. What is a major theme in Basquiat's Slave Auction (1982) and Jim Crow (1986)?
A) The Industrial Revolution
B) Medieval European battles
C) African-American history
D) Space exploration
  • 47. Which book significantly influenced Jean-Michel Basquiat's depictions of human anatomy?
A) The Anatomy of the Human Body
B) Anatomy for Artists
C) Gray's Anatomy
D) Human Physiology
  • 48. By what percentage did Basquiat's annual auction sales fall in 2022?
A) 25%
B) 100%
C) 50%
D) 75%
  • 49. In what year did the authentication committee announce its dissolution?
A) 2008
B) 2012
C) 2016
D) 2023
  • 50. In which year did Basquiat's first public showing of paintings and drawings occur at MoMA PS1?
A) 1983
B) 1985
C) 1981
D) 1979
  • 51. How many drawings did Jean-Michel Basquiat produce during his career?
A) Around 600
B) Less than 1,000
C) Around 1,500
D) Over 2,000
  • 52. Who organized a show of Jean-Michel Basquiat's work at her friend's New York apartment in April 1983?
A) Jennifer Goode
B) Lee Jaffe
C) Madonna
D) Paige Powell
  • 53. Who curated the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure?
A) Franklin Sirmans
B) Marc Mayer
C) Rene Ricard
D) Basquiat's family
  • 54. Who found Jean-Michel Basquiat unresponsive?
A) Paige Powell
B) Glenn O'Brien
C) Keith Haring
D) His girlfriend Kelle Inman
  • 55. Which art historian situates Basquiat's anatomical screen prints as an assertion of vulnerability?
A) Fred Hoffman
B) Olivier Berggruen
C) Kellie Jones
D) Pablo Picasso
  • 56. What was the highest amount paid for an original work of Basquiat's before 2002?
A) $20 million
B) $3.3 million
C) $10 million
D) $5.5 million
  • 57. What was the title of the exhibition that caused a rift in Jean-Michel Basquiat's friendship with Andy Warhol?
A) Zenith
B) Taxi, 45th/Broadway
C) Paintings
D) Olympics (1984)
  • 58. Which fashion designer's runway did Jean-Michel Basquiat walk for in 1985?
A) Comme des Garçons
B) Armani
C) Gagosian
D) Boone
  • 59. Which art critic wrote that Basquiat experienced a good taste of fame in his last years?
A) Hilton Kramer
B) Bonnie Rosenberg
C) Franklin Sirmans
D) Robert Hughes
  • 60. In which year did Basquiat appear on the cover of The New York Times Magazine?
A) 1984
B) 1986
C) 1987
D) 1985
  • 61. Where did Jean-Michel Basquiat move into a loft owned by Andy Warhol in August 1983?
A) 57 Great Jones Street, NoHo
B) Salzburg, Austria
C) Market Street studio space
D) Venice Beach, California
  • 62. Who compared Basquiat's work to the emergence of hip-hop?
A) Rene Ricard
B) Niru Ratnam
C) David Bowie
D) Franklin Sirmans
  • 63. Which painting by Basquiat references Charlie Parker?
A) Untitled (Axe/Rene) (1984)
B) Horn Players (1983)
C) Charles the First (1982)
D) King Zulu (1986)
  • 64. What was the sale price of Untitled (Head) (1982) in June 2020?
A) $41.8 million
B) $20.9 million
C) $15.2 million
D) $10.8 million
  • 65. Which artist was a collector of Basquiat's works?
A) Andy Warhol
B) Franklin Sirmans
C) Robert Hughes
D) David Bowie
  • 66. What was the title of the collaborative work Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol created for the 1984 Summer Olympics?
A) Paintings
B) Zenith
C) Taxi, 45th/Broadway
D) Olympics (1984)
  • 67. What was the sale price of Self-Portrait as a Heel (Part Two) (1982) at Sotheby's in 2023?
A) $46.5 million
B) $48.3 million
C) $67.1 million
D) $42 million
  • 68. What was the cost of obtaining an opinion from Basquiat's authentication committee?
A) $100
B) $200
C) $50
D) $500
  • 69. Who purchased Basquiat's first painting in 1981?
A) Drummer Lars Ulrich
B) Gallerist Emilio Mazzoli
C) Singer Debbie Harry
D) Mary Boone
  • 70. What was the title of Rene Ricard's article that brought Basquiat to the attention of the art world?
A) The Radiant Artist
B) Radiant Child
C) Child Prodigy
D) Basquiat: The Rising Star
  • 71. Who sued the Basquiat authentication committee in 2008?
A) Guido Orsi
B) Basquiat's sisters
C) Gerard De Geer
D) Tony Shafrazi
  • 72. What was the title of the painting Jean-Michel Basquiat created after his first meeting with Andy Warhol?
A) Dos Cabezas
B) Hollywood Africans
C) A Panel of Experts
D) Equals Pi
  • 73. Who purchased Untitled (1982) for $57.3 million at Christie's in 2017?
A) Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa
B) Gallerist Emilio Mazzoli
C) Drummer Lars Ulrich
D) American businessman Ken Griffin
  • 74. What did Basquiat design for André Heller's Luna Luna amusement park?
A) A Ferris wheel
B) A bumper car attraction
C) A carousel
D) A roller coaster
  • 75. Where is Jean-Michel Basquiat buried?
A) Cabrini Medical Center
B) Manhattan's Central Park
C) Hamburg
D) Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery
  • 76. What did Basquiat paint on during this period?
A) Canvas only
B) Leather jackets
C) Objects found in the streets
D) Blank walls
  • 77. Basquiat reclaims blackness from what process?
A) Cultural appropriation
B) "Aesthetic colonization"
C) Political marginalization
D) Economic exploitation
  • 78. Which artist's work did Jean-Michel Basquiat take considerable interest in while visiting Gemini G.E.L.?
A) Andy Warhol
B) Madonna
C) George Condo
D) Robert Rauschenberg
  • 79. What was the sale price of Sugar Ray Robinson (1982) at Christie's in 2022?
A) $32.6 million
B) $46.5 million
C) $67.1 million
D) $42 million
  • 80. Who got to know Basquiat well as the editor of Artforum?
A) Keith Haring
B) Francesco Clemente
C) Paige Powell
D) Ingrid Sischy
  • 81. Which spiritual tradition's symbolism is alluded to by the skulls in Basquiat's paintings such as Red Skull and Untitled?
A) Buddhist philosophy
B) Christian iconography
C) Islamic art
D) Haitian Vodou
  • 82. Which piece by Basquiat juxtaposes evolutionary science with themes of marginality?
A) Untitled (Charles Darwin)
B) Irony of Negro Policeman
C) Hollywood Africans
D) Dustheads
  • 83. Which art dealer became Jean-Michel Basquiat's worldwide representative after he left the Annina Nosei Gallery?
A) Larry Gagosian
B) Fay Gold
C) Mary Boone
D) Bruno Bischofberger
  • 84. What was the name of the nightclub where Jean-Michel Basquiat sometimes worked as a DJ?
A) Whisky a Go Go
B) Tail o' the Pup
C) Palladium
D) Area
  • 85. What does Basquiat's depiction of the black body resist?
A) Surrealist techniques
B) Traditional portraiture
C) Reductive racial representations
D) Abstract forms
  • 86. What was the name of Jean-Michel Basquiat's girlfriend who he claimed would become famous?
A) Paige Powell
B) Jennifer Goode
C) Madonna
D) Lee Jaffe
  • 87. How much did singer Debbie Harry pay for Basquiat's first painting?
A) $5,000
B) $10,000
C) $3.3 million
D) $200
  • 88. Who sold Profit I (1982) at Christie's in 2002?
A) Gallerist Emilio Mazzoli
B) Singer Debbie Harry
C) Drummer Lars Ulrich
D) Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa
  • 89. Which app announced the sale of an untitled drawing on paper for $10.8 million in 2020?
A) Fair Warning
B) Sotheby's App
C) Christie's App
D) Phillips App
  • 90. Which nightclub did Jean-Michel Basquiat paint murals for?
A) Tail o' the Pup
B) Area
C) Whisky a Go Go
D) Palladium
  • 91. For how much did Yusaku Maezawa sell Untitled (1982) at Phillips in 2022?
A) $20.9 million
B) $85 million
C) $57.3 million
D) $110.5 million
  • 92. What year were three paintings displayed as Basquiats at the FIAC revealed to be fakes?
A) 2002
B) 2014
C) 1994
D) 2007
  • 93. What was the sale price of Crowns (Peso Neto) (1981) at Sotheby's in 2025?
A) $46.5 million
B) $67.1 million
C) $42 million
D) $48.3 million
  • 94. Who photographed Basquiat at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery?
A) Allen Ginsberg
B) Keith Haring
C) Glenn O'Brien
D) Francesco Clemente
  • 95. What cultural elements are suggested by the heads in Basquiat's works like Untitled (Two Heads on Gold) and Philistines?
A) American pop culture
B) Japanese samurai helmets
C) : European classical art
D) African masks, suggesting a cultural reclamation
  • 96. Who read a poem by Langston Hughes at Basquiat's memorial?
A) Ingrid Sischy
B) David Shapiro
C) His friend Fab 5 Freddy
D) John Lurie
  • 97. Basquiat's relationship with which culture enriches his aesthetic of blackness?
A) Jazz
B) Classical music
C) Opera
D) Hip-hop culture
  • 98. Which city did Jean-Michel Basquiat visit for an exhibition organized by Bruno Bischofberger in October 1986?
A) Paris, France
B) Atlanta, Georgia
C) Salzburg, Austria
D) Abidjan, Ivory Coast
  • 99. In which city did Jean-Michel Basquiat have his last exhibition on the West Coast in January 1986?
A) Atlanta, Georgia
B) New York City
C) Los Angeles
D) Paris
  • 100. Where was the public memorial for Basquiat held?
A) Saint Peter's Church
B) Cabrini Medical Center
C) Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel
D) Yvon Lambert Gallery
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