Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Born
- 22 December 1960 (27 years old)
- Died
- 12 August 1988
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Gender
- Male
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting. Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Michel Basquiat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
