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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  November 2014 Antique & Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  04 Nov 2014 ~ 9.30am (NZ time) (Lots 1 - 444)
  04 Nov 2014 ~ 5pm (NZ time) (Lots 450 - 893)
• Lot #:
  831
• Lot Description:
  Artist unknown after Elmyr de Hory (Hungary 1906-1976) after Claude Monet
  'In the Woods at Giverny’ (Blanche Hoschedé Monet at her Easel)
  oil on canvas
  signed on reverse and dated 1969
• Notes:
  de Hory was a painter and art forger who is said 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’, a documentary essay film by Orson Welles. This work and the following were purchased from Ken Talbot in London in 1980. It has been to our attention by Mark Forgy, de Hory’s friend, personal assistant and sole legal heir that Talbot himself was a con man who established a robust cottage industry of fabricating phony works by de Hory. Forgy has written about Talbot in his book The Forger’s Apprentice
• Estimate:
  NZ$1,000 - 1,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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