"Peter Doig could not have been the author of the work," Feinerman said in his decision, calling it a case of mistaken identity. Doig, who lived in Toronto decades ago, disavowed the work, arguing the acrylic landscape was by a Peter Doige, a man who once spent time locked up in Thunder Bay for a drug offence. 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. The artist, who splits his time between Trinidad and London, denied ever being in Thunder Bay, or in prison.

Source: CBC News August 23, 2016 22:41 UTC