Surrounded by visitors, the FBI seized 25 works purportedly by Basquiat from a Florida museum in a mid-day raid:
, focused on the works’ questionable provenance, saying its investigations revealed “false information relating to the alleged prior ownership of the paintings.”
The works, which are currently owned by the dealer William Force and his financial backer Leo Mangan, are said to have been produced in 1982, when Basquiat lived in a studio beneath Larry Gagosian’s Los Angeles home and was preparing for a show at his gallery in the city. The artist apparently sold these works directly to the late screenwriter Thad Mumford for $5,000.
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