Fake or Fortune?

Degas and the Little Dancer

Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate Danseuse Bleue et Contrebasses, a small painting believed to be by Edgar Degas.

Turner: A Miscarriage of Justice?

The team reopens the case of three landscapes—The Beacon Light, Off Margate and Margate Jetty—bequeathed to the Nati

Van Dyck: What Lies Beneath

Philip Mould places one of his own discoveries under investigation: a heavily altered portrait that he believes conceals

Vuillard

Writer Keith Tutt asks the team to investigate a painting he bought speculatively as a possible work by French post-impr

Constable

Two marine landscapes attributed to John Constable are examined. One, Yarmouth Jetty, has been heavily altered by later

Chagall

A Leeds property developer believes that Nude, 1909–10 may be an unknown work by Marc Chagall. Fiona and Philip trace

Gainsborough

The team selects two publicly owned paintings from the BBC’s Your Paintings project for investigation: Imaginary Lands

Lowry

The team investigates three paintings—Lady with Dogs, Darby and Joan and Crowd Scene—that were bought by Cheshire bu

Renoir

Artist Nicky Philipps asks the team to examine Boats on the Seine at Argenteuil, an unsigned painting held at her family

A Mystery Old Master

A monumental depiction of the Lamentation of Christ hangs largely overlooked in St John the Baptist Church in Tunstall,

Munnings and Churchill

Charles Henty asks Fiona and Philip to investigate two paintings discovered in a coal cellar: a winter landscape attribu

Freud

The team investigates a portrait believed to be an early work by Lucian Freud, despite the artist having denied painting

Delaroche

A painting bought for £500 is investigated as the possible lost royal commission Saint Amelia, Queen of Hungary by Paul

Rodin

A family-owned watercolour is said to belong to Auguste Rodin’s celebrated series of Cambodian dancers. With little do

Portraits

Three unrelated portraits are investigated as possible works by Philip Mercier, Adolph von Menzel and Willem de Kooning.

Constable

The team investigates a painting of Willy Lott’s Cottage that Philip Mould had previously bought and sold twice withou

Tom Roberts

Fiona and Philip travel to Australia to investigate Rejected, a painting bought online for £7,500 and signed by Austral

Gauguin

Two possible works by Paul Gauguin receive very different investigations. A pencil study resembling a figure from When W

Nicholson

A still life bought for £165,000 as a work by William Nicholson was later excluded from the latest catalogue raisonné.

Toulouse-Lautrec

Two sketchbooks preserved for decades in a French garden shed may contain youthful drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henry Moore

A small watercolour from the Gurlitt art hoard is examined as a possible work by Henry Moore and as potentially Nazi-loo

A Double Whodunnit

The team investigates two rare historical portraits of Black British women. One depicts Dido Belle with Lady Elizabeth M

Giacometti

A damaged plaster sculpture resembling Alberto Giacometti’s early Gazing Head is subjected to provenance research and

The Lost Gainsborough

The team examines an eighteenth-century landscape that may be Thomas Gainsborough’s lost painting Wooded Landscape wit

Cosway or Lawrence?

A family portrait traditionally attributed to Maria Cosway catches Philip’s attention as a possible work by Sir Thomas

De Chirico

A small still life bought for only £1 is investigated as a possible work by Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. Scientif

A Venetian View

The team investigates an eighteenth-century Venetian scene that has been attributed at different times to Francesco Guar

A Sculpture in the Brambles

At a Norfolk country house, Fiona and Philip investigate an abstract metal sculpture that has spent years serving as a d

Gerome

The team examines Arab at Prayer, an Orientalist painting dated 1858 and signed by Jean-Léon Gérôme. Although once ac

Landseer

An oil painting of a dramatic battle scene may be Sir Edwin Landseer’s lost Time of War, believed to have been destroy

A King's Last Supper

A sheep farmer who paid £50 for a small religious painting believes it may be a preparatory study by Benjamin West for

Ben Nicholson

Fiona and Philip investigate an abstract mural painted directly onto a bedroom wall in a former home of sculptor Fred Mu

Modigliani

A delicate drawing of a mother and child, inherited through the Sitwell family, is examined as a possible work by Amedeo

Sisley

An American couple asks the team to investigate a river landscape believed to depict Moret-sur-Loing by Alfred Sisley. I

Flemish Old Master

A large depiction of the Lamentation of Christ hanging in a Catholic church in Port Glasgow may be the work of a Norther

Elisabeth Frink

Fiona and Philip investigate Small Warrior, a bronze sculpture bought for £90 at an Essex car-boot sale and believed to

Joshua Reynolds

A painting bought online for £2,700 as “in the manner of” Sir Joshua Reynolds is found beneath extensive later over

Camille Pissarro & Paul Cézanne

The team investigates two disputed French drawings: a market scene attributed to Camille Pissarro and a delicate tree st

Arshile Gorky

A canvas given to the owner’s late husband by Arshile Gorky’s widow may conceal an important early painting beneath

Mondrian

American artist Jeffrey Kroll asks the team to investigate a small flower painting inherited from his father and signed

Helen McNicoll

Art dealer David Taylor bought a painting of women working in a field for £2,090, suspecting that it might be by Canadi

Music Memorabilia

The programme ventures beyond fine art to investigate two pieces of rock memorabilia: a silver guitar said to have belon

Corot

The team examines The Head of the Lake, a landscape signed by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and purchased largely for its

The Mystery of Churchill’s Garden

A carer named Barry asks the team to investigate a garden scene he bought for £140 at an antiques fair. An inscription

A Tale of Two Renoirs

Two separate owners believe their paintings may be unknown works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir: a landscape and a portrait of

A Modern Masterpiece for £35?

Art blogger Robjn Cantus bought two unattributed paintings from a council collection for only £35. One abstracted lands

Portrait of a Lady - in Pittsburgh?

An American couple bought a damaged painting of a grieving woman at a Pittsburgh estate sale for $200. Its composition a

What Happened Next? A Double Whodunnit

Fiona and Philip return to the two portraits of Black British women investigated in Series 7. New research and growing i

What Happened Next? Helen McNicoll

The team revisits The Bean Harvest, authenticated during Series 12 as a lost work by Canadian Impressionist Helen McNico

Fabergé or Fauxbergé

Fiona and Philip unravel the mystery of a suspected Fabergé flower, kept hidden in a shoebox in Liverpool but believed

A Passage to India

Two women lost in time: an enigmatic Indian woman and an 18th-century Scottish artist. Will this quest uncover a double

The Last Gift

The last gift left in the will of a former Kindertransport child is thought to be by Fauvist artist Derain. Will it rais

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