Elmyr de Hory

Elmyr de Hory 1905 December 11 1976 was a Hungarianborn 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