Elmyr de Hory (born Hoffmann Elemér) (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.
Read more about Elmyr De Hory: Early Life, Life As A Forger, Making A Business of Forgery, Unmasking The Forger, Death and Legacy