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Sunday, November 22, 2020

KEVIN DOYLE...IS THAT YOU? Notorious Basquiat Forger Just Listed Another Fugazi Painting On eBay

Would Picasso have stolen a whale bone

No, but eBay seller, the self-styled "gentleman_collector" Doyle (who did steal a whale bone in December 2018 from Yarmouth, MA, based International Fund for Animal Welfare), is back plying his trade online. 

And by "trade" I mean selling forged paintings, while brazenly claiming a shoddy fake is really an "uncatalogued Jean-Michel Basquiat original".


 

Doyle was recently featured on this blog, most notably in a multi-part series that exposed his association with art fraudsters Taryn Burns, William Force, Lumsden Quan and convicted felon David Damante.

My investigation revealed evidence that strongly suggested three people who wrote character reference letters on Quan's behalf—Doyle, Burns and Force—played significant roles in the fake Basquiat painting scam executed between 2017-2018 in California and Nevada by David Damante.

It appears Doyle has not stopped, and has upped his game.

Instead of selling postcards from the edge (in Doyle's case, a subway case), Doyle's attempting to sell a $40,000 Fugazi Basquiat on eBay.

And, to make it even more egregious, Doyle's claiming that "10% of the sale of this item will benefit National Black Justice Coalition".


Funny, David Johns, the Executive Director of the NBJC, has never heard of Doyle.

In an email to me, Johns confirmed that "we do not know Doyle and have not communicated with anyone about or authorized the use of NBJC's name/logo/likeness in association with any of his activity."

In a twist, I "watched" this item on eBay, and was rewarded with a 50% price cut.

Somewhere in the Atlantic, a happy whale just exhaled.


1 comment:

  1. As ever, thank you for reporting on crooks like this guy and the many others you have done over the years. The community should give you a medal!

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