The six-by-six-foot work on canvas depicts a "large skull head set against a ruby-red background, with a blazing eye, protruding green teeth, and fractured anatomy.

"What drew Basquiat almost obsessively to the depiction of the human head was his fascination with the face as a passageway from exterior physical presence into the hidden realities of man’s psychological and mental realms," wrote Art historian Fred Hoffman.

[2] The second, Untitled (1982) was sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby's in 2017, the highest price paid for an American artist at auction.

[3] In 2018, a Basquiat retrospective opened at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris featuring the trinity of skull paintings.

Listed Untitled, the first two are sometimes dubbed Skull, while the third is titled In This Case; these cranial anatomies are not memento mori, but amplified memories played very, very loud.