• Warrior is a painting created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. It is interpreted as "a semi-autobiographical work championing his creative vision as a black...
  • A 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting titled “Warrior” sold for $41.9 million on Tuesday at Christie’s auction house in Hong Kong.
  • The halo or crown of thorns that surrounds the warrior’s head signifies he is a hero. Basquiat reserved this motif for his modern day saints and martyrs.
  • The sale of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s proclaimed masterpiece Warrior is promised to be a milestone for the Western art market in Asia.
  • Aussi exceptionnelle que brève, la carrière de Basquiat ne ressemble à aucune autre... ... Much of Jean-Michel Basquiat's art seems like that of one's inner child.
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat’s iconic painting, Warrior, is set to be sold in Hong Kong and is predicted to be Asia’s most expensive piece of Western Art.
  • Appearing most famously in the acclaimed self-portrait Warrior (1982) —a work the artist described as one of his ‘best paintings ever’ — it indexes Basquiat’s...
  • As the global craze for works by Jean-Michel Basquiat continues, Sotheby’s will offer a painting from the artist’s “Warrior” series in Hong Kong this October.
  • Sold by on-line auction in Christie’s We are all Warriors: The Basquiat Auction in Hong Kong: 23 March 2021.