Kenneth Wayne, once hailed as a foremost expert on Amedeo Modigliani, is no longer seen as just a scholar. His role in legitimizing forged paintings has made him a central figure in one of the most alarming art fraud cases in recent history. This isn’t a case of accidental misjudgment or scholarly disagreement. The evidence increasingly suggests that Wayne’s actions were not only irresponsible but knowingly deceptive.

How the Kenneth Wayne Modigliani Scandal Exposed the Fragile Line Between Expertise and Exploitation in the Art World

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.

How the Kenneth Wayne Modigliani Scandal Exposed the Fragile Line Between Expertise and Exploitation in the Art World

Kenneth Wayne Exposed