Fake Or Fortune?
Every picture tells a story, but in this engaging mini-series valuable paintings are about to be treated as crime scenes! Beyond the genteel galleries and upmarket auction houses of the art world lies a dimension rarely seen - a darker side of incalculable wealth, social ambition, and sometimes subterfuge. A recognized art sleuth, a doctor of history, and cutting edge scientists join forces to discover the truth behind controversial paintings. From Paris and Amsterdam to Cape Town and New York, the team employs old-fashioned detective skills, real-time investigations, and the latest forensic testing to reveal compelling tales of lost masterpieces, forgers and Nazi-looted art.
Fake Or Fortune? Previous Broadcasts
Lost Picture (Episode #102H)
KQED 9: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 -- 3:00 AM
Fisherman Tony couldn't believe his luck when he stumbled upon a pile of pictures apparently dumped at his favorite riverside spot. Fast forward 15 years and Tony, accompanied by his daughter, is told by Philip Mould at a recording of Antiques Roadshow that one of the pictures is an unknown work by Winslow Homer, worth £30,000.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Life: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 -- 1:00 AM
- KQED Life: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 -- 7:00 PM
- KQED 9: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 -- 5:00 AM
- KQED 9: Sun, Jun 24, 2012 -- 11:00 PM
- KQED Life: Sun, Jun 24, 2012 -- 11:00 AM
- KQED Life: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 -- 2:00 AM
- KQED Life: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 -- 8:00 PM
Monet, Monet, Monet (Episode #101H)
KQED Life: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 -- 1:00 AM
In the art world Monet means money. But in order to make big bucks, paintings thought to be by Monet must be accepted into the official register, the "catalogue raisonne" - a five-volume tome which lists every Monet in existence. For the last 18 years, art collector David has been imploring the Wildenstein family who publishes the catalog to accept his painting as a genuine Monet. Despite his research and support of the world's heavyweight Monet scholars, Guy Wildenstein refuses to accept the painting. Is it or is it not a Monet?
Lost Picture (Episode #102H)
KQED 9: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 -- 9:00 PM
Fisherman Tony couldn't believe his luck when he stumbled upon a pile of pictures apparently dumped at his favorite riverside spot. Fast forward 15 years and Tony, accompanied by his daughter, is told by Philip Mould at a recording of Antiques Roadshow that one of the pictures is an unknown work by Winslow Homer, worth £30,000.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Life: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 -- 1:00 AM
- KQED Life: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 -- 7:00 PM
- KQED 9: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 -- 5:00 AM
- KQED 9: Sun, Jun 24, 2012 -- 11:00 PM
- KQED Life: Sun, Jun 24, 2012 -- 11:00 AM
- KQED Life: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 -- 2:00 AM
- KQED Life: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 -- 8:00 PM
Monet, Monet, Monet (Episode #101H)
KQED 9: Mon, Jun 11, 2012 -- 9:00 PM
In the art world Monet means money. But in order to make big bucks, paintings thought to be by Monet must be accepted into the official register, the "catalogue raisonne" - a five-volume tome which lists every Monet in existence. For the last 18 years, art collector David has been imploring the Wildenstein family who publishes the catalog to accept his painting as a genuine Monet. Despite his research and support of the world's heavyweight Monet scholars, Guy Wildenstein refuses to accept the painting. Is it or is it not a Monet?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Life: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 -- 7:00 PM
- KQED 9: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 -- 5:00 AM
- KQED 9: Sun, Jun 17, 2012 -- 11:00 PM
- KQED Life: Sun, Jun 17, 2012 -- 11:00 AM
- KQED Life: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 -- 2:00 AM
- KQED Life: Wed, Jun 13, 2012 -- 8:00 PM
- KQED 9: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 -- 3:00 AM









