Fake or Fortune?

2011•12 series•Entertainment / Music/Arts

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Journalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art dealer Philip Mould, who has been dubbed `the art detective', to investigate remarkable stories of well known paintings. From time-to-time paintings purported to be famous artists appear which cause a stir in the art world. From Paris and Amsterdam to Cape Town and New York, the team employs old-fashioned detective skills to research the provenance of the paintings, as well as the latest forensic testing to reveal compelling tales of lost masterpieces, forgeries and thefts.

Episode 1A Sculpture in the Brambles

Could a sculpture found in the long grass of a Norfolk home be a work by Henry Moore?

Episode 2Gerome

Can the team prove that a painting is a genuine work by the Orientalist artist Gerome?

Episode 3Landseer

Has a painting by Landseer, thought destroyed by a flood in 1928, been rediscovered?

Episode 4A King's Last Supper

A King’s Last Supper. Could a picture bought online for £50 be a missing 18th-century work by Benjamin West?

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