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Elmyr de Hory

Elmyr de Hory
  • Name: Elmyr de Hory
  • Birthday: 1906-04-16
  • Place of birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
  • Popularity: 0.342
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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Title Release date
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory   as  Himself 2008-01-01
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery   as  Self (archive footage) 1997-01-01
F for Fake   as  Self 1973-09-01