04/16/1906
Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]:
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
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Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory (2008) as Self |
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Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery (1997) as Self (archive footage) |
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Vérités et Mensonges (1973) as Self |