Eric Hebborn: Portrait Of A Master Forger

Eric Hebborn claims to have drawn over 1000 sketches that were attributed to master painters and sold under their names. In this documentary Hebborn living in Italy tells his story of how he came to start sketching and how the sketches ended up being attributed to artists such as Castiglione, Van Dyck, Corot and Rubens. He claims he is not a forger and did nothing wrong it was up to the experts to decipher from were the pictures originated. Hebborn had come clean in 1991 in his book Drawn to Trouble and shortly after the BBC screened the documentary. In 1996 five years after this film and just after the release of his second book The Art Forger's Handbook Eric Hebborn was assassinated in Rome.



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