When you look at a piece of art, what captivates you into stopping time?  Is it the colors?  Is it the way the artist displayed each unknown character in its place? Perhaps it’s the assumption of what the artist was thinking. That’s exactly what took place at the Brooklyn Museum in the Robert E. Blum Gallery on the opening night of Brooklyn-born and raised artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (1982).

Out of many of Basquiat’s artwork, this piece was purchased at a whopping $110.5 million by billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. “I am a lucky man” Maezawa said on Twitter with a photo of him taking in his newly acquired painting.

Maezawa plans to tour the painting around the world before he puts it in his personal museum in Japan.

Jean-Michel Basquiat 'Untitled' Makes Its Debut At The Brooklyn Museum
An onlooker takes in ‘Untitled’ at the Brooklyn Museum. | Photo by Melissa Clark

“I am thrilled to be sending Basquiat’s masterpiece home to Brooklyn,” Maezawa said in a statement. “It is my hope that through the exhibition and extensive programming accompanying it, the young people of the borough will be inspired by their local hero, just as he has inspired so many of us around the world.”

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Just as the buyer wished for the public to appreciate this work of art, a viewer who chooses to remain anonymous stated, “I’ve been standing here getting lost in this. The colors are complex along with the structure yet it works so well together. It’s not textured, but it works”.

Aviva Jaye of Bedford Stuyvesant, a musician, performing artist and member of the Brooklyn Museum explains, “I love the colors and one can definitely tell this is not of our time. It’s brilliant!  I like to look at an exhibit more than once because each time is different.”

Although Basquiat lost his life on August 12, 1988, at the age of twenty-seven, his work is timeless.  His art still lives on through the eyes of our era and generations to come.

Untitled is on display in the one-piece exhibition now through March 11, 2018.