known collectively as the Basquiat Venice Collection Group (BVCG)—after the FBI seized the paintings in 2022 out of an exhibition at Florida’s Orlando Museum of Art. The owners say that they ...

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 ...

An obituary for De Groft, still involved in three lawsuits arising from the Basquiat scandal ... some of the works that had been part of the exhibition. De Groft, who was overseas on vacation ...

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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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 ...