Artist Peter Doig denies painting landscape worth $10m

In a Chicago case involving mistaken identity, LSD, and jail time, artist Peter Doig had to prove he did not paint a landscape.

A federal judge in Chicago was set to issue a verdict last night in a peculiar civil trial over the celebrated Scottish-born artist’s insistence that he did not paint a landscape work which was once valued at more than $10m (€8.8m).

Some of Doig’s paintings have sold for more than $20m, and the owner of the disputed picture, a prison official from Canada, sued in the US court for millions in damages after its projected sales price nosedived after 57-year-old Doig denied it was his work.