The authenticity of more than two dozen works of art purported to have been created by Jean-Michel Basquiat are being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Art Crime Team, the New York Times reported.
In a federal subpoena directed to the Orlando Museum of Art, the institution that houses the 25 pieces of supposedly original Basquiat’s, the agency demanded that “any and all” pieces of communication between staff members and the owners of the pieces of art, “purported to be by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat”, be turned over to them.
