Elmyr de Hory

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

Known For

F for Fake

as Self

Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

as Self (archive footage)

Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory

as Himself