Elmyr de Hory

Elmyr de Hory

1906 1976

Hungarian painter & art forger (1906-1976)

Elmyr de Hory was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger. It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries all over the world. His activities garnered celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake (1969), and a documentary essay film by Orson Welles, F for Fake (1974).

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