Eric Hebborn PRICE CHARTS
1934 London, England - 1996 Rome, Italy. Known for: Art forgery, painting, drawing, sculpture.
"The Prolific Forger Whose Fake Old Masters Fooled the Art World", by Christy Kuesel, October 10, 2019, Website of Artsy: Art Market. Art dealer Eric Hebborn had a golden rule: He never worked with... Read full biography
"The Prolific Forger Whose Fake Old Masters Fooled the Art World", by Christy Kuesel, October 10, 2019, Website of Artsy: Art Market. Art dealer Eric Hebborn had a golden rule: He never worked with amateurs. Anyone looking to buy a painting or drawing from his business, Pannini Galleries, needed to... Read full biography
"The Prolific Forger Whose Fake Old Masters Fooled the Art World", by Christy Kuesel, October 10, 2019, Website of Artsy: Art Market. Art dealer Eric Hebborn had a golden rule: He never worked with amateurs. Anyone looking to buy a painting or drawing from his business, Pannini Galleries, needed to be someone who specialized in art, who believed themselves able to tell if a work was a genuine Brueghel. or Van Dyck. And if after they took that artwork home or sold it to another gallery or a... Read full biography
"The Prolific Forger Whose Fake Old Masters Fooled the Art World", by Christy Kuesel, October 10, 2019, Website of Artsy: Art Market. Art dealer Eric Hebborn had a golden rule: He never worked with amateurs. Anyone looking to buy a painting or drawing from his business, Pannini Galleries, needed to be someone who specialized in art, who believed themselves able to tell if a work was a genuine Brueghel. or Van Dyck. And if after they took that artwork home or sold it to another gallery or a museum, it turned out to be a fake, well, that was on them for failing to recognize a forgery. Hebborn, who died in 1996, is widely considered to be the greatest art forger of modern times. By his own estimate, he created over 1,000 forgeries. Only a... Read full biography
"The Prolific Forger Whose Fake Old Masters Fooled the Art World", by Christy Kuesel, October 10, 2019, Website of Artsy: Art Market. Art dealer Eric Hebborn had a golden rule: He never worked with amateurs. Anyone looking to buy a painting or drawing from his business, Pannini Galleries, needed to be someone who specialized in art, who believed themselves able to tell if a work was a genuine Brueghel. or Van Dyck. And if after they took that artwork home or sold it to another gallery or a museum, it turned out to be a fake, well, that was on them for failing to recognize a forgery. Hebborn, who died in 1996, is widely considered to be the greatest art forger of modern times. By his own estimate, he created over 1,000 forgeries. Only a handful of these works have been exposed as fakes, in places like the National Gallery of Denmark and the Morgan Library &... Read full biography
