Haitian-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is getting the star treatment in Italy and the UK from this fall to next. The Warhol friend, known for his singular and direct style, died of a drug overdose at 27 in 1988. He came of age in the post-punk underground art scene of 1970s Lower Manhattan to become one of the most significant painters of the 20th century.

Basquiat first drew media attention in 1978, when he teamed up with his classmate Al Diaz to graffiti enigmatic statements across the city under the collective pseudonym SAMO© (which stood for ‘same old, same old bullshit’). He went on to make paintings, murals, films, and more. Since 2000, the price of his work has skyrocketed by 506 percent, according to Artprice.

Some 140 paintings, drawings and ceramics, form a retrospective (on view now through Feb. 26, 2017) at Milan's Museum of Culture, showing works made between 1980 and 1987, largely on loan from the private collection of New York art dealer Jose Mugrabi, who knew Basquiat. Curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Gianni Mercurio, the exhibition aims to show Basquiat's "central role in the generation of his peer-artists and the function of his art as a bridge connecting different cultures."

Next year, the Barbican Centre in London will stage “Boom for Real,” the first ever large-scale exhibition of Basquiat's work in the U.K. where his influential oeuvre has rarely been seen.

Opening Sept. 21, 2017, there will be 100 Basquiat works on view across media. Paintings, drawings and notebooks will be presented alongside rare film, photography, music and ephemera in a design that aims to capture the dynamism of Basquiat’s practice. Co-curators Eleanor Nairne and Dieter Buchhart will also reconstruct Basquiat's first show, recerating a group exhibition at the former Manhattan gallery PS1 in 1981 that Basquiat participated in and first gained widespread recognition.

Basquiat: Boom for Real is organized in collaboration with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.