Aaron De Groft, Museum Director Accused in Fake Basquiat Scheme, Dies at 59
In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibit of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was fired when the paintings turned out to be forgeries.
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 museum in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of a probe into ...
Former director of Orlando Museum of Art, tied to Basquiat scandal, dies at 59
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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 ...
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Insurers seek to deny millions in claim over Basquiat ‘fakes’
Michael Barzman, a California auctioneer, later admitted to creating some of the works himself and falsely attributing them to Basquiat, an acclaimed artist who died in 1988. The owners of the ...
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Insurers balk at $19.7M claim on fake Basquiat paintings seized by FBI
about six years after Basquiat died, according to the federal warrant from the museum raid. Also, television writer Thad Mumford, the owner of the storage locker where the art was supposedly found ...
Ex-Orlando 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 ...
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Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died
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 ...