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Independent Lens | Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child | The Wunderkind of the Lower East Side | PBS

Duration: 00:28
Program: Independent Lens #1218
Broadcast Date: Apr. 5, 2011

In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a wunderkind and a phenomenon. Discovered through for his graffiti art in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side, he sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and later became best friends with Andy Warhol. Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in a definitive documentary.

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