Fake or Fortune? is an Arts programme that first aired in 2011.

Freud has no rating, but Fake or Fortune? is a 3/5 star programme.
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Fake or Fortune?: Freud

Series 5, episode 1

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. Fake or Fortune returns with one of the most challenging cases the team has ever encountered. Can art detectives Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce prove that a painting of a man in a black cravat is one of the first pictures ever painted by celebrated and controversial British artist Lucian Freud, even though Freud himself denied painting it? London-based designer Jon Turner is eager to prove that a painting he inherited from two friends is in fact an early portrait painted by Freud whilst at art school in 1939. If it's genuine, it could be worth around half a million pounds. But who is the mysterious man in the portrait - and why did Freud deny it was his work? As the team hunt for clues, they are drawn into a world of feuds, rivalries and intrigue. Can those who knew Freud best help unlock the painting's secrets?

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Fiona Bruce
Philip Mould
Bendor Grosvenor