But neither, Mr. Seracini conceded, would be able to create an image of the lost painting.
In Gustav Klimt's lost painting Jurisprudence, a gigantic octopus threatens to envelop humanity.
In 2006 the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation put an image of a lost painting by Lichtenstein, "Electric Cord," on its holiday greeting card.
Trance, which stars James McAvoy, is the story of a fine art auctioneer and a criminal gang who join forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting.
A "sensational" lost painting by Vincent van Gogh has been discovered after more than a century, a major find that for many years sat in a Norwegian attic gathering dust.
Ms Gibson contacted August Uribe, an expert from Sotheby's, anonymously after the US version of the TV programme Antiques Roadshow featured the lost painting.
Elizabeth Paxton, many of whose works are lost, painted ravishing still lifes of moments in time -- a finished breakfast tray, a bedroom with shoes and sheets in sensual dishabille.
One hour later at 9pm The Mystery Da Vinci, about a supposed lost painting by the master, brought in 800,000, a 3% share, to Five.
Under the big red letters that spell out wanted is the outlaw Francis Bacon, in a black-and-white photograph of the lost painting.
The precociously assured young artist's "Leda and the Swan," at the beginning of the exhibition, was inspired by a now lost painting by Michelangelo that was itself based on an ancient onyx cameo belonging to Lorenzo de' Medici.
