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Eric Hebborn was born in South Kensington, London, in 1934. [1] His mother was born in Brighton and his father in Oxford.According to his autobiography, his mother beat him constantly as a child.
The Art of the Faker — a book about art forgery by Frank Arnau; The Counterfeiters — a movie inspired by the Nazi counterfeiting scheme, Operation Bernhard; F for Fake — an Orson Welles documentary about art forger Elmyr de Hory; Fake Britain — a BBC television series about counterfeiting and its effects on consumers
Himmler-Forgery (Type I top, Type II bottom) Proofs of the Himmler-Forgery Type II in black and violet Cancelled Himmler stamps forged by PWE on a postcard. The Himmler stamp was designed by the British secret service with the intention of driving a wedge between the leadership of the Nazi regime.
Thomas Patrick Keating (1 March 1917 – 12 February 1984) was an English artist, art restorer and art forger.Considered the most prolific and versatile art forger of the 20th century, [1] he claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by more than 160 different artists of unprecedented scope—ranging from the Renaissance (Holbein, Titian, Tintoretto) to Modernism, Expressionism and ...
The Orson Welles documentary F for Fake concerns both art and literary forgery. For the movie, Welles intercut footage of Elmyr de Hory, an art forger, and Clifford Irving, who wrote an "authorized" autobiography of Howard Hughes that had been revealed to be a hoax. While forgery is the ostensible subject of the film, it also concerns art, film ...
The extraordinary real-life story of a friendship between a reformed ex-art forger and the police officer who arrested him has emerged in Jeffrey Archer's latest crime novel An Eye For An Eye, out ...
Archaeological forgery is the manufacture of supposedly ancient items that are sold to the antiquities market and may even end up in the collections of museums. It is related to art forgery . A string of archaeological forgeries have usually followed news of prominent archaeological excavations .
Art forgery is the creation and sale of works of art which are intentionally falsely credited to other, usually more famous artists. Art forgery can be extremely lucrative, but modern dating and analysis techniques have made the identification of forged artwork much simpler.