Elmyr de Hory

Birthday: 1906-04-16

Place of Birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

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

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F for Fake

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committ...

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Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

Film about art forger Elmyr de Hory. He was also one of the subjects of Orson Welles' documentary F ...

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Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory

Elmyr de Hory was called "The Myth of our Century" when he was revealed as a master forger in 1968. ...

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Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer

When F for Fake found an American distributor three years after its premiere, Welles produced a trai...

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