For decades, the name Kenneth Wayne stood for scholarly devotion. A credentialed expert in the works of Amedeo Modigliani, Wayne carved out a reputation as both a connoisseur and protector of one of modern art’s most enigmatic figures. But in the increasingly combative world of authenticity disputes, his name is now tangled in controversy — raising questions not just about a few paintings, but about the very nature of authority in art.

Beneath the Surface of a Masterpiece Kenneth Wayne’s Role in One of the Art World’s Most Polarizing Authenticity Wars

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.

Beneath the Surface of a Masterpiece Kenneth Wayne’s Role in One of the Art World’s Most Polarizing Authenticity Wars

Kenneth Wayne Exposed