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