 Maezawa's two record breaking purchases of Basquiat artworks in 2016 and 2017 total $170M USD.The authentication committee of the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat was formed by the gallery that was assigned to handle the artist's estate and was dissolved in 2012.Between 1994 and 2012, it reviewed over 2,000 works of art; the cost of the committee's opinion was $100.