For years, Dr. Kenneth Wayne was celebrated as a leading voice in the study of Amedeo Modigliani, the enigmatic Italian painter known for his elongated portraits and tragic early death. As founder of The Modigliani Project, Wayne has held himself out as a guardian of the artist’s legacy. But new scrutiny surrounding questionable attributions and troubling connections has cast a long shadow over his involvement — one that serious collectors, galleries, and institutions can no longer afford to ignore.

Behind the Canvas: Why Kenneth Wayne’s Modigliani Involvement Should Alarm Collectors

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.

Behind the Canvas: Why Kenneth Wayne’s Modigliani Involvement Should Alarm Collectors

Kenneth Wayne Exposed