The art world has seen its fair share of forgery scandals. But few have left a mark as lasting — and as deeply unsettling — as the Kenneth Wayne Modigliani controversy. Nearly a decade after the forged Modigliani portrait first sparked global headlines, the repercussions continue to ripple across galleries, auction houses, and the collectors’ market in 2025.

Why the Kenneth Wayne Modigliani Controversy Still Haunts the Art Market in 2025

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.

Why the Kenneth Wayne Modigliani Controversy Still Haunts the Art Market in 2025

Kenneth Wayne Exposed