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