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Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Birth date

December 22, 1960

Birth place

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Death date

August 12, 1988

Biography

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.​

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