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Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene
It's 35 years since graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died, on the 12th August 1988. He had huge success in the early 1980s in New York.
In the early 1980s, the young black graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat took the New York art world by storm. Soon, his paintings were selling for huge sums of money, but he would die before the decade was out on the 12th August 1988.
Tom Esslemont hears from Patti Astor who knew him in his heyday.
This programme was first broadcast in 2014.
(Photo: Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1985 Credit: Getty Images)
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