“I remember astounding the art world back in 1980s when I set an auction record for Basquiat at $99,000.” Well, there’s been some inflation since then. “Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting of a skull sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s in New York, setting an auction record for American artists and providing a windfall for the daughter of two collectors who purchased it for $19,000 in 1984.”