Basquiat’s former NYC studio that rents for $60,000 a month

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The former Noho studio and dig where the late great Jean-Michel Basquiat spent the last five years of his life is on the rental market — for a cool $60,000 a month.
Basquiat, who died in 1988, rented the bohemian space at 57 Great Jones Street from mentor Andy Warhol, who owned the building until 1990.
The second floor of the two-story, 6,600-square-foot space — which Basquiat used as a studio — features an “open loft space with high ceilings and multiple skylights,” while the downstairs dining room features a “massive” skylight, according to Meridian Capital Group, which lists the rental .
The listing also touts a “full restaurant area with venting and gas in place” but notes that all uses of the premises are accounted for.


“We primarily target artists, gallery users and hospitality groups,” said Meridan Capital Group broker Garrett Kelly.
Basquiat rented the apartment/art studio from Warhol from 1983 to 1988.
In 2016, the Village Preservation installed a plaque marking Basquiat’s time at the Great Jones Street site, which recently housed the exclusive Japanese recommendation-only restaurant Bohemian.

The plaque reads: “Basquiat’s paintings and other work challenged established notions of high and low art, race and class, while creating a visionary language that defies characterization.”
Anything tied to Basquiat means big bucks.
His paintings regularly sell for eight-figure sums. In 2017, Basquiat’s 1982 rendering of an angry-looking skull, Untitled, sold at Sotheby’s for $110 million after a bidding war broke out between Japanese fashion magnate Yusaku Maezawa and a Las Vegas casino owner. It was the highest price ever paid for a work by an American artist at auction.

In May, two would-be art thieves attempted to steal a Basquiat painting from a Chelsea gallery.
The art star died of an accidental heroin overdose in 1988.
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