Cutting Edge tells the audacious story of the pensioners from Lancashire who conned the art world with a series of fakes sold to museums, galleries and collectors from all over the world. Masterminded by 84-year-old George Greenhalgh and his wife Olive, 83, their son Shaun, 47, faked paintings, sculptures and ancient artefacts in the garden shed of their shared council house in Bolton. The fake art, created over a 17-year period, managed to deceive the British Museum, Henry Moore Institute and Chicago Institute of Art as well as the great auction houses of Sotheby’s and Christie’s.
Thursday 15 May 2008
9:00pm, Channel 4
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