Elmyr de Hory
Visual Artist
1906 – 1976
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Who was Elmyr de Hory?
Elmyr de Hory was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger who is said 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, a documentary essay film by Orson Welles.
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- Born
- 1906
Budapest - Nationality
- Hungary
- Education
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière
- Died
- Dec 11, 1976
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on July 23, 2013
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