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Eric Hebborn (1934-1996) was a British painter and art forger and later an author. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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Early life
Eric Hebborn was born to a Cockney family in 1934, although his mother was a gipsy. According to him, his mother beat him constantly. At the age of eight, he states in his autobiography that he set fire to his school and was sent to Borstal reformatory, although his sister Rosemary disputes this. Teachers encouraged his painting talent and he became connected to Maldon Art Club where he first exhibited at the age of fifteen. He later claimed that it was there that he had his first homosexual experience.[1] St Mary-le-Bow The term cockney is often used to refer to working-class people of London, particularly east London, and the slang used by these people. ...
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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.[2] There he 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, who told Hebborn that a couple of his drawings looked like Poussins. This sowed the seeds of his forgery career. The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. ...
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Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO between 1956 and 1979, was an English art historian, formerly Professor of the History of Art, University of London and director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1947-74). ...
Hebborn returned to London where he was hired by art restorer George Aczel. During his employ he was instructed not only to restore paintings, but to alter them and make them better. George Aczel graduated him from restoring existing paintings to 'restoring' paintings on entirely blank canvases so that they could be sold for more money. A falling out over Eric's knowledge of painting and restoration destroyed the relationship between Aczel and Hebborn. Look up Canvas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Eric and his lover Graham David Smith [3] also frequented a junk and antique shop near Leicester Square, where Eric befriended one of the owners, Marie Gray. In organizing the prints catalogued in the shop Eric began to understand more about paper, and its history and uses in art. It was on some of these blank, but old, pieces of paper that Eric made his first drawings. Graham David Smith (b. ...
His first true forgeries were pencil drawings after Augustus John and were based on a drawing of a child by Andrea Schiavone. Graham Smith states [3] that several of these were sold to their landlord Mr Davis, several to Bond Street galleries and two or three through Christie's sale rooms. Artist John, on a 1928 Time cover Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (January 4, 1878 – October 31, 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. ...
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Eventually Hebborn decided to settle in Italy with Graham, and they 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; Corot, Castiglione, Mantegna, Van Dyck, Poussin, Ghisi, Tiepolo, Rubens, Jan Breughel and Piranesi. Art historians such as Sir John 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 drawings Hebborn created were his own work, made to resemble the style of historical artists—and not slightly altered or combined copies of older work. An Old Master (or old master) is one of the great European painters who lived 1500 through 1800, or a painting by one of these painters. ...
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In 1978 a curator at the National Gallery of Artin Washington DC , Conrad Oberhuber, was examining a pair of drawings 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 drawings had been executed on the same kind of paper. A curator of a cultural heritage institution (e. ...
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Oberhuber was taken aback by the similarities of the paper used in 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.[1] The Pierpont Morgan Library is a research library in New York City. ...
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. Alice Beckett states that she was told '...no one talks about him...The trouble is he's too good'[4]. Thus Hebborn continued to create his forgeries, changing his style slightly to avoid any further unmasking, and manufactured at least 500 more drawings between 1978 and 1988.[2] In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ...
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. [1] Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ...
On January 8, 1996, shortly after the publication of the 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.[1] is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The provenance of many paintings connected to Hebborn, some of which hang in renowned collections, continues to be debated.
A documentary film Eric Hebborn: Portrait Of A Master Forger, featuring an extended interview with Hebborn at his home in Italy, was produced for the BBC Omnibus strand and broadcast in 1991. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ...
Hebborn's books - Drawn to Trouble Mainstream, 1991 ISBN 1851583696
- Art Forger's Handbook Overlook, 1997 (posthumous) ISBN 1585676268
References - ^ a b c d False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes, Thomas Hoving, Simon & Schuster, 1996 ISBN 0684831481
- ^ a b Death of a Forger by Denis Dutton University of Canterbury
- ^ a b Celebration: the autobiography of Graham David Smith, Graham David Smith, Mainstream, 1996 ISBN 1-85158-843-4
- ^ "Fakes: forgery and the art world", Alice Beckett, RCB, 1995
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