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May 18: An untitled Jean-Michel Basquiat work was sold for $110.5m, becoming the most expensive American painting ever, 2017
Legendary artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn. Famous for being part of an informal graffiti group called SAMO (Photo Courtesy: Courtesy of William Coupon / CORBIS)
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