Orlando Sentinel28d
Insurers seek to deny millions in claim over Basquiat ‘fakes’
The owners of art dramatically seized by the FBI from a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at Orlando Museum of Art in 2022 now face a legal battle to collect their nearly $20 million insurance claim.
The New York Times20d
Aaron De Groft, Museum Director Accused in Fake Basquiat Scheme, Dies at 59
In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibition of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat ... relations stunt intended to save face.” He still insisted that the ...
Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died
Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution under a cloud in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of an art fraud probe into more than two dozen forged ...
Click2Houston21d
Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died
a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution under a cloud in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of an art fraud probe into more than two dozen forged Jean-Michel ...
The Art Newspaper22d
Aaron De Groft, Orlando Museum of Art director fired in Basquiat forgery scandal, has died, aged 59
“My reputation is at stake as well,” De Groft told The New York Times in February 2021, shortly after Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat ... smacked me in the face, and I tore up my ...
Orlando Sentinel21d
Aaron De Groft, whose ‘Basquiat’ exhibit triggered a scandal at Orlando museum, dies at 59
Aaron De Groft, who came to Central Florida to raise the profile of Orlando Museum of Art — but then embroiled the institution in an FBI fraud investigation over purported Basquiat paintings ...