Elmyr de Hory
Hungarian painter & art forger (1906-1976)
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Updated 2026-07-17
Elmyr de Hory was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger. It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries all over the world. His activities garnered celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake (1969), and a documentary essay film by Orson Welles, F for Fake (1974).
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