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Antiques Roadshow guest amazed as 'most faked' painting now worth £80,000

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Antiques Roadshow guest was thrilled when he brought a painting reminiscent of a Teddy boy to find a whopping valuation of £80,000.Appearing on Sunday's (February 28) BBC programme, art historian Lawrence Hendra admitted he was feeling nervous when he came to valuate a painting by Laurence Stephen Lowry.He told the guest: "Not only because he was one of the most distinctive and popular and valuable British artist of the 20th century, but he was also one of the most faked."The man said he found the painting in a fine art gallery and spent £1,300 on the artwork."I was buying an antique bicycles in Christie’s, and I got it for way below what its value was," he explained."And so I had some surplus cash and I walk around.

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