Numlock News: June 28, 2022 • Forgeries, Private Jets, Kate Bush
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By Walt Hickey Basquiat The FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art on Friday, seizing all 25 of the paintings in an ongoing exhibition of paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The seizure is related to questions about the authenticity of the works, which are painted on cardboard and which the museum said were created in 1982 and sold to a screenwriter for $5,000. When the screenwriter forgot to pay for his storage unit, the works were auctioned off and sold for $15,000. The evidence against them being bona fide Basquiats is varied, but rather compelling: For instance, apparently one of them is painted on a FedEx shipping box, specifically one with a typeface not used on FedEx boxes until 1994, which beyond not working with the origin story also is six years after Jean-Michel Basquiat died.
Numlock News: June 28, 2022 • Forgeries, Private Jets, Kate Bush
Numlock News: June 28, 2022 • Forgeries…
Numlock News: June 28, 2022 • Forgeries, Private Jets, Kate Bush
By Walt Hickey Basquiat The FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art on Friday, seizing all 25 of the paintings in an ongoing exhibition of paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The seizure is related to questions about the authenticity of the works, which are painted on cardboard and which the museum said were created in 1982 and sold to a screenwriter for $5,000. When the screenwriter forgot to pay for his storage unit, the works were auctioned off and sold for $15,000. The evidence against them being bona fide Basquiats is varied, but rather compelling: For instance, apparently one of them is painted on a FedEx shipping box, specifically one with a typeface not used on FedEx boxes until 1994, which beyond not working with the origin story also is six years after Jean-Michel Basquiat died.