"he is now the managing partner of the New York-based firm Art Fiduciary Advisors. While Woodham and Basquiat had wildly different trajectories, in the introduction Woodham claims some affinity with him through their middle-class origins, churchy background and similar age. But the real reason for the book, Woodham writes, is his "admiration for the artist's insatiable curiosity, self-directed ambition and determination to carve out a place for himself in the world"."
"The first is a straightforward biography: an intellectually gifted child, born in Brooklyn in 1960 to Matilde, a loving and nurturing woman of Puerto-Rican heritage, and a Haitian-born father. This happy childhood was shattered by his mother's descent into mental illness, his near-fatal accident and the breakdown of his parents' marriage. Shuttled between schools in Puerto Rico and New York, Basquiat began playing truant and experimented with drugs, sex and alcohol, before starting the street art project tagged "SAMO©" alongside Al Diaz."
Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from a complex childhood in Brooklyn and Puerto Rico, the son of a Puerto-Rican mother and a Haitian-born father. Early promise as an intellectually gifted child gave way to trauma from his mother's mental illness, a near-fatal accident and his parents' marital breakdown. Basquiat experimented with drugs and truancy before launching the SAMO street-art project with Al Diaz. By 1980 he was gaining recognition, and by 1983 he exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and befriended Andy Warhol. His commercial success peaked in 1984–86, but increasing heroin use culminated in his 1988 overdose. His posthumous reputation and market prices have continued to rise.
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