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The Warhol sale unseated the previous record holder and another modern master, Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose 1982 painting “Untitled” of a skull-like face sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby’s in 2017.

From Washington Times • May 9, 2022

Gray runs an Airbnb out of her house, with plans to add an 18-foot-high Sioux teepee for guests to sleep in and an art gallery filled with skull-like sculptures she creates from branches and stones.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2022

But children took the opportunity to dress up in Mexico-style Day of the Dead costumes as skull-like Catrinas, or as red-clad guards from the Netflix series “Squid Game.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2021

Mapplethorpe's skull-like face is gently fuzzed, slightly out of focus, as if a phantom hovering in the background.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2016

He looked up at them sullenly, his eyes deep and enormous in his bony, skull-like face.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck