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Season 8 – Fake or Fortune?

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Season 8 – Fake or Fortune?

Jul 2019

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Journalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art dealer Philip Mould -- dubbed "the art detective" -- to investigate remarkable stories beneath the surface of paintings. From Paris and Amsterdam to Cape Town, the banks of the Nile, and New York, the team employs old-fashioned detective skills and the latest forensic testing to reveal compelling tales of lost masterpieces, forgers and Nazi-looted art. The episodes include an investigation into what the hosts believe is an unrecognized and valuable painting by Monet.

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Carol Midgley

The Times (UK)

08/16/2019

4/5

This is an immersive format in which you learn about art without even noticing.

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Christopher Stevens

Daily Mail (UK)

07/31/2019

4/5

As always, this elegant art history show -- half Sotheby's, half Sherlock -- kept us guessing with scraps of intriguing evidence and red herrings.

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Fiona Bruce

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Philip Mould

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Lucy Swingler

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Guy Arthur

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Christopher Boreham

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Nicky Illis

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Episode 1

Aired Jul 25, 2019

A Landscape -- Thomas Gainsborough

The team investigate a landscape that could be a lost work by one of the biggest names in British art, Thomas Gainsborough.

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Episode 2

Aired Aug 1, 2019

A Family Portrait -- Maria Cosway or Sir Thomas Lawrence

The team investigate an 18th century portrait of a young man believed to be the work of Maria Cosway, but Philip Mould suspects it was actually done by Regency artist Thomas Lawrence.

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Episode 3

Aired Aug 8, 2019

A Still Life -- De Chirico

The team try to prove a still life painting depicting fruit in a windblown landscape, bought in a junk shop, is the work of Giorgio de Chirico.

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Episode 4

Aired Aug 15, 2019

A Venetian Scene -- Guardi and Marieschi

Philip and Fiona investigate a highly desirable Venetian view inherited by Nick Hopkinson from his great-grandfather Meyer Spielman.

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Director: Guy Arthur, Nicky Illis, Lucy Swingler, Rachel Jardine
Executive Producer: Judith Winnan
Network: BBC
Rating: TV-PG
Genre: Documentary, Special Interest
Original Language: British English
Release Date: Jul 25, 2019

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