The Art Of More
Season 2 M-Net Edge (*102) 19:00 Drama
We’re back to sneaky deals in the highpressure, big-money world of auction houses as The Art Of More (2015-current) returns with season 2. “Auctions are about unbridled desire and these people desperately want something. It’s interesting to watch what they will do to get it,” says creator and executive producer Chuck Rose. And much like the art objects and memorabilia we see on screen, the series has stories of its own.
1 The Art Of More is set in New York but is filmed in Montreal, Canada (including scenes that are set in Paris). The Parke-Mason auction house exterior is really the Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts.
2 Christian Cooke spent a day at a London auction house preparing for his role as Graham Connor and he was told this crazy story: “A Chinese tycoon called the four major houses and asked them all to send a representative because he was going to sell all his art. They went to his home in China and he said, ‘Tomorrow at noon you are all going to play rock, paper, scissors and whoever wins gets the account.’”
3 Cary Elwes, who plays Arthur Davenport, is deeply familiar with the arty setting – his father and grandfather were painters and his mother, an interior designer, used to take him to high-end auctions.
4 Quebec-based sculptor Jean Pronovost hand-made the show’s ancient Sumerian artefacts, like the copper-coated mask from season 1.
5 And while most of the artwork in the series are replicas, artist James Juron was asked to create original paintings for the show. His Man On A Rope (originally painted by Honore Daumier in 1858) can be seen in episode 2 this season.