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Journalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art expert Philip Mould to investigate the provenance or attribution of notable artworks.
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    #1 - Degas and the Little Dancer

    S2:E1

    Fiona and Philip examine a painting that owner Patrick Rice thinks is by Edgar Degas. If its genuine, it could be worth about £500,000. They trace the artwork back through time to find out whether it really was created by one of France's greatest artists.

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    Director:Robert Murphy
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - Turner: A Miscarriage of Justice?

    S2:E2

    Fiona and Philip take a look at the history of three paintings bequeathed to the National Museum of Wales after their owner died in 1951. It was always thought that the paintings were by landscape artist JMW Turner, but only months after the museum took ownership, experts said that they were fakes.

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    Director:Nicky Illis
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Van Dyck: What Lies Beneath

    S2:E3

    The tables end up being turned on Philip this week when one of his own pictures are put under the microscope.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Vuillard

    S3:E1

    Fiona and Philip attempt to help a man who believes he owns a painting by French post-impressionist Edouard Vuillard.

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    Director:Nicky Illis
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - Constable

    S3:E2

    Fiona and Philip attempt to prove that two paintings are missing works by one of the country's best-loved artists, John Constable.

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    Director:Robert Murphy
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Chagall

    S3:E3

    Fiona and Philip attempt to help Martin Lang try and prove the painting he bought in 1992 is by modern master Marc Chagall.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - Gainsborough

    S3:E4

    This week the focus is on Britain's public art collections, in which 17,000 paintings are listed as `artist unknown'. Philip identify several works they believe are by Thomas Gainsborough.

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    Director:Ben Southwell
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - Lowry

    S4:E1

    Fiona and art experts Philip Mould and Bendor Grosvenor attempt to help a man who has inherited three paintings supposedly by LS Lowry.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Renoir

    S4:E2

    Nicky Philipps needs help in determining whether a mysterious painting housed at Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire is a genuine piece of work by French Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - A Mystery Old Master

    S4:E3

    Fiona and Philip are at a church in Lancashire, once patronised by Yorkshire's famous Bronte sisters, that is the home of a painting thought to have been made by an Italian old master.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - Munnings and Churchill

    S4:E4

    Fiona and Philip attempt to help Under-Sheriff and Secondary of London Charles Henty find out whether two paintings in his possession are as valuable as he believes.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - Freud

    S5:E1

    The team investigate a portrait which may have been one of Lucian Freud's first creations.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - Delaroche

    S5:E2

    The team try to prove the authenticity of a suspected lost masterpiece by Paul Delaroche.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - Rodin

    S5:E3

    A sketch of a dancer believed to have been drawn by Auguste Rodin is investigated.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - Portraits

    S5:E4

    Featuring works claimed to be by Willem de Kooning, Philip Mercier and Adolph von Menzel.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - Nicholson

    S7:E1

    Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould examine a still life that may have been painted by prolific artist William Nicholson, but which has been rejected by leading experts on his work. They discover a useful source of evidence in Nicholson's own paint box, but as they delve into the painting's history, they discover it may have been connected to one of the 20th century's greatest art crimes. Fiona meets a reformed forger to discover if he ever faked a Nicholson while Philip takes the painting to Canada to compare it to another of the artist's works.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #17 - Toulouse-Lautrec

    S7:E2

    Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould must prove that a sketchbook is the work of a young Toulouse-Lautrec, overturning a decision made by a committee of experts on the artist. The drawings in the book are of a very different subject matter to Lautrec's famous works, and are dated to when he was a teenager - a period of his life that is largely a mystery. To get to the truth, Fiona and Philip travel to the town in the south of France where Lautrec grew up and visit the grand family home where he spent much of his youth.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - Henry Moore

    S7:E3

    Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate a small watercolour sketch that could be the work of sculptor Henry Moore. The piece was found in 2012 in a hoard of artwork stolen by the Nazis. While the unidentified piece has many characteristics of Moore's work, none of the other artworks recovered were by British artists, so it remains a mystery how it came to be there. The team must not only find out who created it, but also who it belonged to, since it may have been looted from Jewish owners during the Holocaust and will need to be returned to surviving descendants.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - A Double Whodunnit

    S7:E4

    Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate the origins of two paintings by unknown artists dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, which unusually for the period, depict black subjects. One is a portrait of Dido Belle, a famous former slave adopted into an aristocratic English family in the 1760s, while the other depicts two children against a tropical landscape, and is believed to have been painted as a protest against the slave trade.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - Giacometti

    S7:E5

    The team try to find out whether a white square of plaster is an early work by Giacometti.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - The Lost Gainsborough

    S8:E1

    The team investigate an 18th-century landscape that could be a lost work by of one of the biggest names in British art, Thomas Gainsborough.

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    Director:Nicky Illis
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - Cosway or Lawrence?

    S8:E2

    Can the team prove that a portrait attributed to pioneering female artist Maria Cosway is actually an undiscovered work of the great Regency artist Sir Thomas Lawrence?

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    Director:Lucy Swingler
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - De Chirico

    S8:E3

    Bought for just £1, could a small still life be the work of one of the masters of early 20th-century art, Giorgio de Chirico?

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    Director:Guy Arthur
    Writer:Unknown
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    #24 - A Venetian View

    S8:E4

    The team investigates a beautiful 18th-century Venetian view. Could this be a work by one of the Italian masters - either Francesco Guardi or Michele Marieschi?

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #25 - A Sculpture in the Brambles

    S9:E1

    A sculpture found in the long grass of a Norfolk home bears striking similarities to the work of Henry Moore. Could it be a lost work by one of the greatest 20th-century artists?

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    Director:Nicky Illis
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Degas and the Little Dancer" is the worst rated episode of "Fake or Fortune?". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Robert Murphy and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/16/2012. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Turner: A Miscarriage of Justice?".