Fake or Fortune? BBC1
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Radio Times said:
Fake or Fortune?
Sunday 19 June
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC1
Monet
1/4, series 1
Missing Antiques Roadshow?
This art-world caper is just as absorbing.
Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould assess disputed paintings: can they settle ticklish questions of authenticity using science, connoisseurship and the far-reaching powers of TV? Their first case is a beautiful Monet riverscape bought by David Joel, now 82, many years ago, but which the authorities refuse to accept is genuine.
David is a brilliant character and the array of tests the painting has to pass are fascinating, including a scan by a 240-millionpixel camera, whose French inventor explains it can "peel back ze layers of paint like an ernion" (he demonstrates on the Mona Lisa).
The programme also shines light on the sinister levers of art world power in Paris. Plus, in what may be a TV first, Fiona Bruce loses her cool and gets quite cross. In French.
Radio Times reviewer - David Butcher
This should be of interest to anybody who collects stuff as there is a whole world of art faking out there which is really scary......Sunday 19 June
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC1
Monet
1/4, series 1
Missing Antiques Roadshow?
This art-world caper is just as absorbing.
Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould assess disputed paintings: can they settle ticklish questions of authenticity using science, connoisseurship and the far-reaching powers of TV? Their first case is a beautiful Monet riverscape bought by David Joel, now 82, many years ago, but which the authorities refuse to accept is genuine.
David is a brilliant character and the array of tests the painting has to pass are fascinating, including a scan by a 240-millionpixel camera, whose French inventor explains it can "peel back ze layers of paint like an ernion" (he demonstrates on the Mona Lisa).
The programme also shines light on the sinister levers of art world power in Paris. Plus, in what may be a TV first, Fiona Bruce loses her cool and gets quite cross. In French.
Radio Times reviewer - David Butcher
Radio Times said:
Sunday 03 July
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC1
Making a Fake
3/4, series 1
Fiona Bruce's splendid fine art series gets down and dirty, looking at the nitty gritty of forgeries and the detective work that goes into spotting them.
Her mission - aided by wonderful, pinstriped expert Philip Mould - is to find out if a painting that hangs in London's Courtauld Institute is a 17th-century original or a 1940s forgery from the prolific brush of Dutch superfaker Han van Meegeren.
Along the way we see a ruinously unconvincing Vermeer and Scotland Yard's storeroom full of fakes, while John Myatt from Brush with Fame has a go at van Meegeren's techniques, using a toxic mix of oil paint and bakelite resin.
On now, another in this fascinating series.....7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC1
Making a Fake
3/4, series 1
Fiona Bruce's splendid fine art series gets down and dirty, looking at the nitty gritty of forgeries and the detective work that goes into spotting them.
Her mission - aided by wonderful, pinstriped expert Philip Mould - is to find out if a painting that hangs in London's Courtauld Institute is a 17th-century original or a 1940s forgery from the prolific brush of Dutch superfaker Han van Meegeren.
Along the way we see a ruinously unconvincing Vermeer and Scotland Yard's storeroom full of fakes, while John Myatt from Brush with Fame has a go at van Meegeren's techniques, using a toxic mix of oil paint and bakelite resin.
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