New 'Fake or Fortune?' starts Sunday

July 13 2016

Video: BBC

Series 5 of 'Fake or Fortune?' begins this Sunday on BBC1 at 8pm, and yours truly can be glimpsed in it every now and then. Above is the new trailer. The first programme is all about a mystery painting (below) once claimed to be by Lucian Freud. It seems to have good early provenance. But there's just one problem - Freud denied painting it...

More here.

Update - I gather another series has already been commissioned. And on The One Show this evening, Fiona said that future programmes might consider things other than paintings, such as antiquities and objets d'art.

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