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Aug 2021
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The Fake Matisse - Art Mysteries, Episod...

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After a famous Matisse painting from a Venezuelan museum mysteriously shows up in a Miami art gallery, a journalist investigates and discovers the unthinkable: for years, the so-called masterpiece on display at the museum was a fake.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3KYKccz.

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