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# Rag & Boon: Christie's Auctions Basquiat Sweatshirt
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/rag-boon-christies-auctions-basquiat-sweatshirt/
- Published: 2014-03-03T22:33:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:48.000Z
- Description: This sweatshirt, listed today in a Christie's online auction, was allegedly hand-painted by Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1979 and 1980.
- Author: Mostafa Heddaya
- Tags: News, Christie's, Jean-Michel Basquiat, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![basquiat_christies_main](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/03/basquiat_christies_main.png)

(image via Christie’s)

This sweatshirt, [listed today in a Christie’s online auction](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/jean-michel-basquiat-works-from-the-collection-of-alexis-adler/untitled-transistors-35/4224/?ref=hyperallergic.com), was allegedly hand-painted by Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1979 and 1980\. Though the starting bid is $8,000, this is no earl’s “acrylic on sweatshirt”: the safety-pinned garment looks like a prop from an OxiClean [infomercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpXh33Mbeg&ref=hyperallergic.com). To wit, per Christie’s: “The overall surface is slightly soiled, presumably due to the artist’s working method.”