The National Portrait Gallery is being urged to investigate a painting that was a finalist in the 2022 Darling Portrait Prize and won the Art Handlers' Award of that year because of its similarity to a work by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The issue has been raised now because the painting under question is by a NSW artist, Jane Allan, who this week has been accused of winning a Queensland art award in 2025 with a "blatant copy" of another artist's work.
