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Eric Hebborn (1934-1996) was a
United Kingdom painter and art forgery and later an
author.
Early life
Eric Hebborn was born to a Cockney family in 1934. According to him, his mother beat him constantly. At the age of eight, he set fire to his school and was sent to Borstal
reformatory. There teachers encouraged his painting talent and he became connected to
Maldon Art Club where he held his first exhibitions at the age of fifteen. He also later claimed that it was there he acquired homosexual habits.
At the Malden Art Club, Hebborn befriended art restorer George Aczel and began his forgery career —he started altering older landscape paintings or painting new landscapes on old blank canvases so that they could be sold for more money.
Hebborn joined the
Royal Academy and flourished there. He won the Silver Award and received a
scholarship to a British art school in
Rome in 1959.
Death of a Forger by Denis Dutton University of Canterbury He had became part of the international art scene and formed acquaintances with many artists and art historians, including the British spy, Sir
Anthony Blunt in 1960, with whom he is rumored to have been romantically involved. Eventually Hebborn decided to settle in
Italy and founded a private gallery there.
Life as a forger
When contemporary critics did not seem to appreciate his own paintings, Hebborn began to copy the style of old masters such as; Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Giuseppe Castiglione (painter),
Mantegna, Van Dyck, Nicolas Poussin,
Giorgio Ghisi, Tiepolo,
Peter Paul Rubens,
Jan Brueghel the Elder and Piranesi. Art historians such as Sir
John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy declared his paintings to be both authentic and stylistically brilliant and his paintings were sold for tens of thousands of pounds through art auction houses, including Christie's. According to Hebborn himself, he had sold thousands of fake paintings, drawings and
sculptures. Most of the paintings Hebborn created were his own work, made to resemble the style of historical artists—and not slightly altered or combined copies of older work.
In 1978 a
curator at the National Gallery of Artin Washington DC , Conrad Oberhuber, was examining a pair of paintings he had purchased for the museum from
Colnaghi a seemingly reputable old-master dealer in
London, one by
Savelli Sperandio and the other by
Francesco del Cossa. Oberhuber noticed that two paintings had been painted on the same kind of canvas, and in same style.
Oberhuber was taken aback by the similarities of the two pieces and decided to alert his colleagues in the art world. Upon finding another fake "Cossa" at the
Morgan Library, this one having passed through the hands of at least three experts, Oberhuber contacted Colnaghi, the source of all three fakes. Colnaghi, in turn, informed the worried curators that all three had been acquired from Hebborn.False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes, Thomas Hoving, Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Colnaghi waited a full eighteen months before revealing the deception to the media, and, even then never mentioned Hebborn's name, for fear of a
libel suit. Thus Hebborn continued to create his forgeries, changing his style slightly to avoid any further unmasking, and manufactured at least 500 more paintings between 1978 and 1988.
Confession and Criticism
In 1984 Hebborn confessed to the forgeries —and feeling as though he had done nothing wrong, he used the press generated by his confession to denigrate the art world.
In his
autobiography Drawn to Trouble (1991), Hebborn continued his assault on the art world, critics and art dealers. He boasted of how easily he had fooled supposed art experts and how eager the art dealers were to declare his works authentic to maximize their profits. Hebborn also claimed that some of the works that had been proven genuine were actually his fakes and that Sir Anthony Blunt had not been his lover, as stated in some articles.On one page he offers a side-by-side comparison of his forgeries of
Henri Leroy by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, and the authentic drawing, challenging "art experts" to tell them apart.
On
January 8,
1996, shortly after the publication of Italian edition of his book
The Art Forger's Handbook, Eric Hebborn was found lying in a street in Rome, his skull crushed with a blunt instrument. He died in hospital on January 11, 1996.
The provenance of many paintings connected to Hebborn, some of which hang in renowned collections, continues to be debated.
Hebborn's books
- Drawn to Trouble (1991)
- Art Forger's Handbook (1997, posthumous)
References
)
Eric Hebborn (1934-1996) was a United Kingdom painter and
art forgery and later an author.
Early life
Eric Hebborn was born to a Cockney family in 1934. According to him, his mother beat him constantly. At the age of eight, he set fire to his school and was sent to Borstal
reformatory. There teachers encouraged his painting talent and he became connected to Maldon Art Club where he held his first exhibitions at the age of fifteen. He also later claimed that it was there he acquired homosexual habits.
At the Malden Art Club, Hebborn befriended art restorer George Aczel and began his forgery career —he started altering older landscape paintings or painting new landscapes on old blank canvases so that they could be sold for more money.
Hebborn joined the
Royal Academy and flourished there. He won the Silver Award and received a scholarship to a British art school in Rome in 1959.
Death of a Forger by Denis Dutton University of Canterbury He had became part of the international art scene and formed acquaintances with many artists and art historians, including the British spy, Sir Anthony Blunt in 1960, with whom he is rumored to have been romantically involved. Eventually Hebborn decided to settle in
Italy and founded a private gallery there.
Life as a forger
When contemporary critics did not seem to appreciate his own paintings, Hebborn began to copy the style of
old masters such as;
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Giuseppe Castiglione (painter),
Mantegna,
Van Dyck, Nicolas Poussin,
Giorgio Ghisi,
Tiepolo,
Peter Paul Rubens,
Jan Brueghel the Elder and
Piranesi. Art historians such as Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy declared his paintings to be both authentic and stylistically brilliant and his paintings were sold for tens of thousands of pounds through art auction houses, including Christie's. According to Hebborn himself, he had sold thousands of fake paintings,
drawings and
sculptures. Most of the paintings Hebborn created were his own work, made to resemble the style of historical artists—and not slightly altered or combined copies of older work.
In 1978 a
curator at the
National Gallery of Artin Washington DC , Conrad Oberhuber, was examining a pair of paintings he had purchased for the museum from Colnaghi a seemingly reputable old-master dealer in
London, one by
Savelli Sperandio and the other by Francesco del Cossa. Oberhuber noticed that two paintings had been painted on the same kind of canvas, and in same style.
Oberhuber was taken aback by the similarities of the two pieces and decided to alert his colleagues in the art world. Upon finding another fake "Cossa" at the
Morgan Library, this one having passed through the hands of at least three experts, Oberhuber contacted Colnaghi, the source of all three fakes. Colnaghi, in turn, informed the worried curators that all three had been acquired from Hebborn.False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes, Thomas Hoving, Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Colnaghi waited a full eighteen months before revealing the deception to the media, and, even then never mentioned Hebborn's name, for fear of a
libel suit. Thus Hebborn continued to create his forgeries, changing his style slightly to avoid any further unmasking, and manufactured at least 500 more paintings between 1978 and 1988.
Confession and Criticism
In 1984 Hebborn confessed to the forgeries —and feeling as though he had done nothing wrong, he used the press generated by his confession to denigrate the art world.
In his
autobiography Drawn to Trouble (1991), Hebborn continued his assault on the art world, critics and art dealers. He boasted of how easily he had fooled supposed art experts and how eager the art dealers were to declare his works authentic to maximize their profits. Hebborn also claimed that some of the works that had been proven genuine were actually his fakes and that Sir Anthony Blunt had not been his lover, as stated in some articles.On one page he offers a side-by-side comparison of his forgeries of
Henri Leroy by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, and the authentic drawing, challenging "art experts" to tell them apart.
On January 8, 1996, shortly after the publication of Italian edition of his book
The Art Forger's Handbook, Eric Hebborn was found lying in a street in Rome, his skull crushed with a blunt instrument. He died in hospital on January 11, 1996.
The provenance of many paintings connected to Hebborn, some of which hang in renowned collections, continues to be debated.
Hebborn's books
- Drawn to Trouble (1991)
- Art Forger's Handbook (1997, posthumous)
References
)
Eric Hebborn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eric Hebborn [1] (1934-1996) was a British painter and art forger and later an author.
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Documentary film about the greatest art forger of all time, Eric Hebborn, who claims that his forgeries have fooled many experts and now hang in galleries all over the world.
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Death of a Forger
Death of a Forger. Denis Dutton. The murder of Eric Hebborn on January 11th brought to a close one of the most illustrious careers of any twentieth-century forger.
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art forgery, master forgers
Eric Hebborn 1934 - 1996 England: Elmyr de Hory 1905 - 1976 Hungaria: Tom Keating 1917 - 1984 England: Lothar Malskat 1912 - 1987 Germany: Han van Meegeren
