Michael Barzman admitted to creating the paintings and making up their origins. The paintings then went on to show in an exhibit at an Orlando museum.
pleaded guilty
Back then, Barzman ran an auction business that bought and sold the contents of unpaid storage units. Barzman admitted Tuesday that "J.F. spent a maximum of 30 minutes on each image and as little as five minutes on others," before giving them to Barzman to sell on eBay, according to the plea agreement. The two then split the money they made from selling between 20 and 30 fake Basquiat works.
The works spent the next decade circulating through the art world, eventually forming the basis of a February 2022 exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando,, when in fact "most of the featured works" had been created by Barzman and "J.F." The investigation led the FBI to seize 25 works of art from the museum in June 2022 that had purportedly been made by Basquiat. In an interview with the FBI in August 2022, Barzman lied to agents, saying that he and "J.F.
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