Basquiat, who lived and worked in New York City, found success in the 1980s as part of the neo-Expressionism movement. Questions about the artworks’ authenticity arose almost immediately after ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibition of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was fired when the paintings turned out to be forgeries. By Brett Sokol ...

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 ...

“Basquiat was a prodigious consumer of art books ... The painting, 4-feet tall and also made with acrylic, oilstick, and Xerox collage, refers to the Negro League in the U.S., with the words ...

A triptych collage by Jean-Michel Basquiat, who has generated a big bulk of evening sale revenues over the last several years, didn't perform as expected. The work, titled Self-Portrait failed to ...

De Groft was at the center of a scandal when the FBI investigated him in relation to potentially fake Jean-Michael Basquiat artworks. De Groft is said to have died from a brief illness.

‘Tobacco versus Red Chief’, 1981-82, is one of the earliest paintings made by Jean-Michel Basquiat during his brief yet prolific career. In the 1970s, Basquiat gained attention as a graffiti artist ...

De Groft negotiated to have the Orlando Museum of Art be the first institution to display more than two dozen artworks said to have been found in an old storage locker decades after Basquiat’s ...

FILE - The entrance to an exhibit by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art, June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) ...