FAKE OR FORTUNE SEO3 EO3 MARC CHAGALL

In 1992, a property developer seized the chance to invest 100, 000 in a work by one of the 20th century s greatest artists Marc Chagall. The picture had surfaced in Russia after the fall of communism, and was offered at a fraction of its full value. There was just one catch it hadn t been fully authenticated by the Chagall Committee in Paris. Twenty years later, the owner wants to find out if he made a shrewd investment or an expensive mistake. The search for clues leads Fiona to Chagall s hometown of Vitebsk in the former Russian republic of Belarus, where she makes connections between the painting and the artist s life story, but events take a more sinister turn when she discovers a news report about the sale of a fake Chagall in the city of Minsk. With scientific testing raising more questions than answers, Philip travels to Los Angeles to consult a notorious forger called Tony Tetro who specialized in faking the work of Chagall. As the team grapple with the shadowy