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Gleaning the True Identity of an Enigmatic Forger
From The New York Times, April 7, 2011

Elmyr de Hory, a Hungarian-born painter known for forging works by Picasso, Modigliani and Matisse, was the subject of biographies and documentaries full of his own lies about his background. In 1976, while under investigation for art fraud, he committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills, leaving behind boxes of paperwork that are now yielding some truths.

Mark Forgy (pronounced FOR-ghee), a writer in suburban Minneapolis who was Mr. de Hory’s assistant and housemate on Ibiza in the 1970s, inherited the archive. He has been poring over it with Colette Loll Marvin, an art historian in Paris. They are conducting interviews and tracking down government records to update a Web site and to produce a documentary and exhibition, both titled “Elmyr de Hory: The Art and Science of Deception.”

“I’m so far down the rabbit hole,” Ms. Marvin said in a recent phone interview, “I’m just not going to rest until I find out who this man is.”

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Elmyr Exhibit at The Hillstrom Museum of Art

MINNESOTA, USA: February 15 - April 18, 2010 The Hillstrom Museum of Art in St. Peter, Minnesota, featured Elmyr de Hory, Artist and Faker. "Included works by one of the most notorious art fakers of modern times, Elmyr de Hory, who claimed to have placed hundreds of his fakes of modern masters such as Henri Matisse (1869 -1954) or Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920) in museums across the U.S. Collector Mark Forgy, who formed a close friendship with de Hory in the final years of his life, will lend works by the artist, done in the style of others but signed with his own name, that de Hory bequeathed to him." Public lecture: Mark Forgy, Sunday, March 21, 2010 (3:30 - 4:30 p.m. at the Wallenberg Auditorium, Nobel Hall of Science. Mark Forgy, owner of the works on view presented a public lecture based on his memoir of his time with de Hory. Click to view the Press Release.

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