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My favorite of all is the story of Elmyr de Hory who was the greatest art forger of all time. Something like $60million or more worth of fake art sold in his li
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My favorite of all is the story of Elmyr de Hory who was the greatest art forger of all time. Something like $60million or more worth of fake art sold in his lifetime? Some of his Picasso's and others they say still hang in museums too afriad to admit they are fakes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory
Orsen Welles did a great movie on him and fakery in general - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVgUjj6RxU http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVgUjj6RxU
The question of who are the real fakers in the art world, the forger or the critics who are duped and swear that a painting is authentic.
The tragedy of Elymr was that he was a great painter but no one cared for his original works and he was much more successful as a forger. The same for Clifford Irving, ironically, who wrote Elymr's biography.
Irving wrote a fake biography of Howard Hues or something along those lines.