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Basquiat friends slam his sisters for putting his art on welcome mats, booze #shorts
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0:59Now PlayingIf you want to buy a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, get ready to pony up $100 million. NY Post reporter Michael Kaplan shares this story.
But, much to the chagrin of his friends, you can also get his work on scented candles, flip-flops, high-end bourbon and even a welcome mat. And those who were close to the artist, who died in 1988, are disgusted by what they view as diluting his legacy.
“I personally think Jean-Michel would be horrified,” Claudia Summers, a writer who was friends with Basquiat, told The Post. “[His sisters] are doing it out of greed.
For all of that, which they view as a dilution of his art, some of Basquiat’s downtown crowd blame the late artist’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux.
The two oversee the estate of the artist, who palled around with Andy Warhol and reigned as a 1980s shining art-star.
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