Elmyr de Hory

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Elmyr de Hory

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1906-04-16 -1976-12-11

Male

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

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Biography


Elmyr de Hory (1905 – December 11, 1976) was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger who claimed to have sold over a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world. His forgeries garnered much celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake!, and from F for Fake (1974), a documentary essay film by Orson Welles. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia