pbartlow

How do you expect the painting to "turn out" to be by Peter Doig, if he is lying? What he would have us believe is that there was another young man with 90% the same name who painted a landscape that the senior Contemporary expert called "Wonderful early Peter Doig", and by coincidence they were both from Canada and it just happened to be the one year of his life when Doig was not in school or working. Oh, and the inmate had been busted for LSD. Doig has paintings named Blotter, Windowpane and Orange Sunshine.

Fletcher and I are suing Doig not for merely disavowing the painting. After a year of research and ridicule from Doig and his dealer, we put it in auction. They threatened lawsuit and killed the sale. Our complaint is for interference of business. He can't do that if he is the real artist. What he will owe us is what we would have gotten if he had stayed out of it. We have plenty of evidence and his behavior and character is quite consistent with what made him a guest of the Correctional Centre in the first place. Wait for the real story when the book comes out.