In the British Museum instead of expensive paintings exhibited forgery.
Seven paintings by famous British artists were removed from museums throughout the UK.
Masterpieces of art worth millions of pounds have been replaced in British museums forgeries in the course of work on a new TV show.
Seven paintings by famous British artists were removed from museums across the UK to determine whether the public recognize fakes are in collections.
To remove the show will be in July and August, and in the air it will be aired on Sky Arts in 2017. Attentive art lovers will have to look for fakes, in particular, at the National portrait gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, the Walker Art gallery in Liverpool, the National Museum Cardiff in Wales, Manchester art Gallery, Art gallery Guildhall in London.
So, in the Museum in Cardiff fake replaced one of the paintings from the collection of the British masters of landscape, including masterpieces by William Turner and artist of the XVIII century Richard Wilson. In the Manchester art Gallery is fake, you should search for among the paintings of the pre-Raphaelites, and the Art gallery Guildhall in London – in the section on narrative painting the Victorian era.
Everyone will be able to start a search of fakes since Saturday, July 2, personally visiting galleries, or by viewing images of paintings from the collections of the mentioned museums in the Internet site Skyartsfake.com after the operation for the introduction of fakes.
However, only the keepers of museums, film crew and hosts of the show – Giles Coren and specialist in art history rose Balston – will know exactly which paintings were replaced by fakes.
