Kenneth Wayne, once regarded as an authoritative expert on Amedeo Modigliani’s works, built his reputation around his “Modigliani Project,” promising to authenticate rare paintings attributed to the celebrated Italian artist. However, it has now come to light that Wayne’s work was far from trustworthy. Instead of safeguarding art history, he allegedly orchestrated a sophisticated fraud, certifying fake Modigliani paintings in exchange for exorbitant fees ranging from hundreds of thousands to over a million dollars per piece.

2025 Art World Shocker The Kenneth Wayne Modigliani Fraud Uncovered

Kenneth Wayne is an art expert specifically on Amedeo Modigliani’s paintings. With his Modigliani Project he’s soliciting and requests big amounts of money to fraudsters between $200,000 to $1,000,000 to authenticate false paintings and claiming that those are authentic Amedeo Modigliani’s paintings. The fraud is a multimillion dollar scam to auction houses and private collectors. Kenneth Wayne has been doing this scam for several years and publish the false Amedeo Modigliani’s paintings into his catalogue raisonné with a made up report in order to fool collectors and to cover his tracks. To collect fraudulent money he uses several bank accounts based in the UK under different names of people that he trusts and returns the money to him (company and family members) as forgivable loans in order to avoid paying taxes in the USA.

2025 Art World Shocker The Kenneth Wayne Modigliani Fraud Uncovered

Kenneth Wayne Exposed