Fake Or Fortune Season 7

When a collector buys a painting believed to be by William Nicholson, one detail casts doubt: it’s missing from the artist’s official catalogue raisonné.

Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould set out to uncover the truth, tracing provenance, examining technique, and consulting experts including Patricia Reed, the authority who decides what counts as a genuine Nicholson. Their investigation becomes a race to prove authenticity and restore a forgotten masterpiece to its rightful place in British art history.

Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould head to France to authenticate a cache of sketches said to be by a young Toulouse-Lautrec. Rejected once by the official committee, the team must uncover new proof strong enough to overturn the verdict and restore these disputed works to the artist’s legacy.

A watercolour thought to be by Henry Moore surfaces from the Nazi-looted Gurlitt Hoard. Fiona and Philip trace its wartime journey, using science and research to determine its true origins and convince the Henry Moore Foundation it’s a genuine work by one of Britain’s greatest sculptors.

Fiona and Philip investigate two rare portraits of Black British subjects painted during the era of slavery. Both challenge 18th- and 19th-century attitudes, revealing stories of identity, representation, and dignity rarely seen in British art of the time.

A mysterious plaster square could be a lost work by Alberto Giacometti. Fiona and Philip travel to Switzerland to test its authenticity, using science, provenance, and art history to uncover whether this minimalist fragment conceals the hand of a modern master.