[3] The robin egg blue painting contains Basquiat's signature crown motif and a head alongside his characteristic scrawled text with phrases such as "AMORITE," "TEN YEN" and "DUNCE.

However, when the work appeared in the March 1983 issue of GQ magazine, it was titled Knowledge of the Cone, which is written on the top of the painting.

[11] In December 1996, the Sabbadinis, a Milan-based clan behind the eponymous jewelry house, purchased it at a Sotheby's London auction for $253,000.

[12][4] Mother and daughter Stefania and Micól Sabbadini posed in front of the painting in their living room for a 2018 feature in W magazine.

"[6] Furthermore, a curator of Basquiat's work has stated that if the use of this shade of blue was in reference to Tiffany, it would have been intended as criticism rather than an homage or as something to be commercialized by the company.