The importance of restoration, framing and overpaint….as we approach the end of filming #FakeOrFortune Season Thirteen. More soon.

Just been at the @hardrockcafelondon turning over as many rolling stones as possible to find a musical provenance.

A lyrical departure for #fakeorfortune - searching for provenance of an altogether melodious kind.

Suffolk lambs for the first time engaged in the meadow to close crop the winter grass, and pave the way for more strident wild flowers in the spring (all being well). Also the first time they’ve seen an iPhone Plantlife

The squalor of genius. Francis Bacon’s studio faithfully re-erected at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. “It’s much easier for me to paint in a place like this which is a mess. I don’t know why but it helps me”. #Fakeorfortune

This compelling portrait of rain is one of those, in the deeply moving exhibition about the last year of Van Gogh’s life at Musée D’Orsay, that reminds you that VG reinvents the brush stroke. Together with Rothko (yesterday’s post) two reasons on their own to got to Paris soon.

Mark Rothko exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris this afternoon was enrapturing. A reminder of what a monumentally progressive master of colour and light he was.

Gallery Christmas dinner at the quaint Polish Hearth Club that still retains its vintage allure.

#FakeorFortune series 12 is now in full production. Analysing pigments last week ⁦The Courtauld⁩

My friend Lorna May Wadsworth has unveiled affordable art collection just in time for Xmas, supporting TheMurrayParishTrust💙.

Prices £50 - £5000

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Ships worldwide!

Restorers uncover demon in a 1789 painting — and reveal the decline of superstition in the Age of Reason bworldonline.com/arts-and-leisu…

Can’t recommend Frans Hals exhibition National Gallery more. The first old master painter to capture a bodily ‘lurch’ in his brilliantly fluid portrayals.

#FakeOrFortune with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould renewed for twelfth series by BBC One. More details:

tvzoneuk.com/post/fakefortu…

Great evening at the Gallery last night with Alison Lapper (@alison_lapper_mbe) Rankin (@rankinarchive) and Isaac Harvey celebrating the establishment of The Drug of Art which uses art and creativity to reach young people with mental health issues. Honoured to be an ambassador.

Many thanks for all your warm comments about this year’s run of #Fakeorfortune . They are greatly appreciated by the whole team. I’m delighted to say work has now begun on series 12 for next year.

Tonight's episode of #FakeorFortune ? will propose an ethical dilemma with high stakes - if a work of art appears to have been covered by the artist who painted it, what is its status of authenticity? BBC Arts

In some ways the most interesting authenticity issue we’ve had to approach this coming Tuesday on #fakeorfortune . A murky canvas allegedly by Arshile Gorky, the hugely valued pioneer of abstract expressionism in 1940’s. But what has happened to it? And can its owner recover it?

I feel the need to post this hilariously dim piece of ‘conspiracy theory’ journalism by somebody who’s clearly not bothered to either watch #fakeorfortune or ask how it works! Fiona and I don’t decide if a painting is genuine! dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…