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Eric Hebborn - Portrait of a Master Forger
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"A beautiful drawing is a beautiful drawing and only its labelling can be wrong," so says master forger Eric Hebborn. Hebborn claims that he has painted over a thousand "Old Masters", some of which...
"A beautiful drawing is a beautiful drawing and only its labelling can be wrong," so says master forger Eric Hebborn. Hebborn claims that he has painted over a thousand "Old Masters", some of which have been sold by Sotheby's, Christie's and Colnaghi. Omnibus watches him creating a Van Dyck and asks is he a criminal forger on a massive scale or just a mischievous prankster?
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- Creator
- BBC
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Place of publication not identified] : BBC, [1991]
- New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2019
- ©1991
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (49 min., 20 sec)) : sound, color
- digital
- video file
- OCLC
- on1108979661
- Originally released by BBC, 1991.
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 23, 2019.
- Streaming video file.
- Closed-captioned.
- Neglected Art (3:14); Forging Masters (3:21); First Forgery (3:57); Parmigianino Drawing (4:58); Studying Art (5:30); Uncorrectable Mistakes (5:02); Colnaghi and Company Press Release (2:55); Deceived Dealers and Patrons (5:42); Period Paper (3:59); Earning Income (6:22); Current Work (3:04); Credits: Eric Hebborn - Portrait of a Master Forger (0:40)