who came to national prominence in 2022 after paintings he was exhibiting as the lost work of Jean-Michel Basquiat were seized by the F.B.I. as fakes, died on Saturday in Orlando, Fla. He was 59.

Mumford died in 2018. At the time of his museum's exhibit, De Groft repeatedly insisted that the Basquiat art was legitimate. An FBI search warrant said that De Groft sent an email to an academic ...

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.

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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 ...

Former Florida Art Museum Director Involved in Basquiat Forged Painting Probe Has Died ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution ...