by Kayla YandoliBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staffhello there! 1. When the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat dated Madonna in the early '80s (just as the two were rising to fame), he gifted her many of his paintings. After they broke up, Madonna said Basquiat asked for his artwork back, and when she returned them, he painted over the pieces black. Michael Putland / Rose Hartman / Getty Images 2. And Jay-Z, a longtime admirer of Jean-Michel Basquiat, has at least one Basquiat painting hanging in his home shared with Beyoncé. In 2013, Jay-Z bought Basquiat's painting "Mecca" from 1982 for $4.2 million.
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