The painting at the centre of the court case is signed "Peter Doige, 76." ( WHITTEN SABBATINI / The New York Times )CHICAGO—A painting at the centre of a strange multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit filed by a former Canadian correctional officer who owns the canvas was definitely not the work of famed artist Peter Doig, a Chicago judge ruled Tuesday. “Peter Doig could not have been the author of the work,” Feinerman said in his decision, calling it a case of mistaken identity. Doig claimed he had never been in the northern Ontario city and only began painting on canvas in 1979. Doig “absolutely did not paint” the impugned work, which was in fact by Doige, Feinerman found.

Source: thestar August 23, 2016 18:25 UTC