Focus on this artwork and explain the abstract.
Crown Hotel (Mona Lisa Black Background) is a 1982 painting created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. The artwork cites Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Édouard Manet's Olympia, two canonical works of western art. In June 2013, it sold for $7.4 million at Sotheby’s.
Jean-Michel Basquiat Sotheby’s Olympia western art Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci Édouard Manet