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com. Work's dot com. In February of 2022, the Orlando Museum of Art opened an exhibit that seemed too good to be true.

25 paintings by the world famous Jean-Michel Basque have never been unveiled to the public.

Starting this weekend, Central Floridians will be the first in the world to see them up close and personal.

The museum was showing the previously unknown Basquiat's.

He is one of the best known contemporary artists in the world.

Baskiat rocketed to fame in the 1980s when he was just in his 20s, a contemporary of Andy Warhol

and Keith Herring. He was of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, and he captivated

viewers with his graffiti and street art-inspired paintings. But Jean-Michel Basquiat was just 27 years old,

when he died of an accidental drug overdose in 1988.

Well, in February of 2022, the Orlando Museum hosted a VIP reception on the exhibits opening weekend, open bar, signature

cocktails, a DJ. Museum director Aaron DeGroft told local TV station Wesch II News that it was a record-breaking event.

They just want to come out. They want to see things. They want to be enlivened.

And when you talk about the hottest artists in the planet, not many people can say that.

But where did these more than two dozen mysterious artworks come from? The museum said Baskyat had painted them in

1982 while living in Los Angeles. The paintings had never been seen before and

according to the museum that's because they'd been stashed in a

screenwriters storage unit for decades. Or maybe they hadn't. The New York Times pointed out this small imprint by FedEx on the back of one of the cardboard paintings.

In the article, a graphic designer claims the font wasn't used by FedEx until after Baskyat's death.

Some curators and Baskyat experts raised doubts.

Others stayed quiet.

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