"Every now and then, factual television will throw up a story that takes your breath away," said Jasper Rees in The Daily Telegraph . BBC2's "The Great Art Fraud" is just such a documentary. This "riveting" two-parter is about Inigo Philbrick, a "class-A grifter" who swindled art collectors out of millions before being convicted of wire fraud, and sentenced to seven years in a US jail.

An art-world wunderkind, the London -born Philbrick started his career as an intern at Jay Jopling's White Cube gallery; and by the age of 24 he was running a gallery of his own, bankrolled by Jopling. Handsome and charming, the young American negotiated deals worth millions, and adopted a jet-set lifestyle to match that of his super-rich clients. But when a crucial sale went wrong, said Ben Dowell in

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