And the real paintings were traded for drugs in North Africa?

There were pictures on the walls (they looked like real paintings), books, a dining table and chairs in some kind of red wood.

She added, "Fixed up, it'll be a real knockout painting."

There were real paintings on the wall, not copies.

Reynolds thought it to be the real painting and the French one a copy, which has now been disproved.

A real painting by Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, could be worth millions.

"There are elements in it that are not in the real painting."

Maybe, but I prefer to speak of real painting.

They receive a reward of £50,000 for returning the real painting, which they supposedly found.

"And those are real Hesporite paintings on the wall, not fakes," he continued.