Is This £1 Thrift Shop Painting By 20th Century Italian Master? | Fake Or Fortune

The team try to prove a painting bought for £1 in a junk shop is the work of Giorgio de Chirico. The painting is a still life depicting fruit in a windblown landscape and belongs to Bob Kay who bought it from a bric-a-brac shop in the nineties. However, scepticism arises from many art experts due...

58 min - Art, Music & Design - Perspective

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