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What counterfeiter became so famous that fakes of his fakes appeared on sale?

The Hungarian-born artist Elmir de Hory became famous as one of the most skillful falsifiers of famous painters. Having started his “career” by imitating the works of Picasso, de Hory managed to sell thousands of fakes in his life, although in a legal sense it is not entirely correct to call them fakes, since de Hory did not sign a single painting with the name of the creator of the original. The fact of his mastery of imitation has become so famous in the art world that there are now fakes appearing under de Hory himself. In 2014, two paintings attributed to him in the style of Claude Monet were put up for auction in New Zealand, but an expert on the works of de Hory was able to recognize the fact of a double falsification.

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