“I said, ‘Nice painting,’” he recalled in an interview. “‘Not by me.’”
The owner, however, disagreed and sued him, setting up one of the stranger art authentication cases in recent history.
The owner, a former corrections officer who said he knew Mr. Doig while working in a Canadian detention facility, said the famous painter indeed created the work as a youthful inmate there. His
suit contends that Mr. Doig is either confused or lying and that his denials blew up a plan to sell the work for millions of dollars.
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