{"id":572,"date":"2008-06-14T07:01:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/06\/u2-selling-off-stellar-basquiat\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T12:17:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T19:17:04","slug":"u2-selling-off-stellar-basquiat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/14\/u2-selling-off-stellar-basquiat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bono et al To Sell Stellar Basquiat"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Observer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

U2 Selling Off Basquiat Painting in London<\/h1>\n

BY<\/span>\u00a0JOE POMPEO<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0JUNE 13, 2008<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A Sotheby’s assistant stands holding Untitled (Pecho\/Oreja) by Jean-Michel Basquiat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n

An interesting\u00a0tidbit<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>: U2 is selling a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting that its bassist, Adam Clayton, bought at a New York gallery in 1989. According to\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>, the band is expected to fetch as much as 6 million pounds (that\u2019s $11.7 million) at a Sotheby\u2019s Contemporary Art auction in London on July 1. The auction record for a Basquiat work is $14.6 million.<\/p>\n

The painting, a 6-foot-square acrylic, oil stick and collage canvas, was completed in 1982 (some reports say 1983) when the artist was 22 years old. He died of a drug overdose in 1988.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems especially appropriate that a work by Basquiat should end up in a music studio, since so much has been said about the relationship between his art and music,\u201d Oliver Barker, of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art department,\u00a0told the BBC<\/a>. The painting had been hanging in U2\u2019s studio until now.<\/p>\n

No word on whether Bono plans to do something philanthropic with the money.<\/p>\n

<\/span>[ click to read article at NYO<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the New York Observer U2 Selling Off Basquiat Painting in London BY\u00a0JOE POMPEO\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0JUNE 13, 2008\u00a0 A Sotheby’s assistant stands holding Untitled (Pecho\/Oreja) by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Getty Images An interesting\u00a0tidbit\u00a0from\u00a0The New York Times: U2 is selling a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting that its bassist, Adam Clayton, bought at a New York gallery in 1989. According to\u00a0Bloomberg, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}