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  2. Art forgery - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Forgery - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Elmyr de Hory - Wikipedia

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    Elmyr de Hory (born Elemér Albert Hoffmann; April 14, 1906 [citation needed] – December 11, 1976) was a famed Hungarian-born painter and art forger.It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries all over the world.

  5. ‘Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art’ Review ... - AOL

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    There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than ...

  6. Authenticity in art - Wikipedia

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    In the art business, the artistic value of a well-executed forgery is irrelevant to a curator concerned with the authenticity of provenance of the original work of art [20] — especially because formally establishing the provenance of a work of art is a question of possibility and probability, rarely of certainty, unless the artist vouches for ...

  7. Italian authorities bust 'Banksy forgery ring' - AOL

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    Banksy’s art, which tends to be graffitied by the artist on public buildings, has at times not remained intact for long. A recent urban jungle collection , which popped up over a series of days ...

  8. Counterfeit - Wikipedia

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    Forgery is the process of making facsimiles or adapting documents with the intention to deceive. It is a form of fraud, and is often a key technique in the execution of identity theft. Uttering is a term in United States law for the forgery of non-official documents, such as a trucking company's time and weight logs.

  9. An Ex-Forger Created A $100 Million Fake Declaration of ... - AOL

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    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 ...