For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Joe ClayThere Are No FakesSky Arts/Now TV, 10pmNorval Morrisseau (1932-2007) is the self-taught indigenous Canadian artist known as the Picasso of the North, famous for his vibrant canvases depicting spiritual scenes. In 2005 Kevin Hearn, an art collector and the guitarist and keyboard player with the Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies (you might remember their quirky 1998 hit One Week, plus they wrote the theme tune to the sitcom The Big Bang Theory), spent C$20,000 (£11,500) on a painting by Morrisseau called Spirit Energy of Mother Earth. In 2010 he lent his painting to the Art Gallery of Ontario, where a curator identified it as a fake.

Source: The Times August 18, 2020 23:03 UTC