Sara Driver

filmmaker, “Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat”

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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting of a skull sold for $110 million last year. That sale put Basquiat on the same level as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.

'Boom for Real' looks at artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as a teen

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting of a skull sold for $110 million last year. That sale put Basquiat on the same level as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.

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