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Fake It and You'll Make It: Elmyr de Hory

Ridiculous Crime

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Dehori's Fake Artwork

Dohori created works that did not exist but looked like they could be. So he started selling what he were calling Picasso pieces to art galleries all over Paris. He sold a bunch of them of fakes in Sweden and that gave him enough cash to get a one way ticket to Rio de Janeiro in 1947. Despite how cruel the New York art world had been to him, he decides to make a go of it there. Dehory moved from New York to LA to Chicago to Miami, selling all his forgeries. Even major A-list celebrities such as Zha Zha Kapoor bought some of his work. This is what Clifford Irving said in his fake book, El

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