Valuable masterpieces in UK galleries replaced with fakes

A secretive operation saw seven priceless works by British artists removed from galleries and museums around the UK.
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Giles Coren and Rose Balston. Image by Doug Peters. 

The seven paintings were replaced with copies by Sky Arts for a new TV series called Fake! The Great Masterpiece Challenge. Only the museum curators, the production team from IWC Media, and presenters Giles Coren and art historian Rose Balston, know which pictures are real and which have been replaced.

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Emma Clark Gratton
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Emma Clark Gratton is an ArtsHub staff writer.