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Basquiat’s secret murals on ex’s wall

The scrawl on her wall is worth big money.

Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat left behind a secret trove of unseen work in his former girlfriend’s East Village apartment before he died tragically in 1988, she claims.

The provocative New York painter — whose racially charged art now rakes in $26 million per piece — made murals on Alexis Adler’s apartment walls and doors in the 1970s, she claims.

She now plans to feature it in a book compete with his photos, sketches and notes he left behind.

“I just want do right by him. I still feel very close to him — I’m surrounded by his work every day,” Adler, 57, told The Post.

She said the world deserves to see his art, which includes a radiator marked with the word “milk,” a door painting called “Famous Negro Athletes” and featuring the words “Olive Oyl.” Adler says she now owns the apartment at East 12th Street and Avenue B and hasn’t painted over the art.

Basquiat was a graffiti artist using the moniker SAMO in the ’70s. He later collaborated with Andy Warhol while churning out paintings about race, class and politics in the ’80s, before his death from a heroine overdose.

A 1996 film about his life, titled “Basquiat,” starred Jeffrey Wright and garnered critical acclaim.

Basquiat painted the apartment in 1979 before he was famous and could afford large canvases or studio space, Adler said.