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Post by Bownarrow on Apr 14, 2020 4:04:29 GMT -5
John and I had flown to London in the mid 80’s to see a former shop keeper by the name of Bill Talbot,...
The Connally collection of 100 paintings was bought from a former english bookmaker, Ken Talbot, in 1983 for $225.000.
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Post by heidini on Apr 14, 2020 12:28:25 GMT -5
Bill vs. ken?
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Post by brianu on Apr 14, 2020 13:14:29 GMT -5
Bill vs ken.....might be same guy, he had like a dozen or more aliases I read some where. Really good artist from the pictures I saw
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Post by Bownarrow on Apr 15, 2020 3:00:48 GMT -5
Bill vs ken.....might be same guy, he had like a dozen or more aliases I read some where. Really good artist from the pictures I saw
John and I had flown to London in the mid 80’s to see a former shop keeper by the name of Bill Talbot, who had been a pawn broker on the island of Ibiza when Elmyr lived there. Bill had loaned the artist money and taken paintings as collateral. I don’t think Elmyr ever intended to reclaim his work because it was too easy for him to paint new canvasses.
On the plane coming home John said, “Well Forrest, we’ve got all of these forgeries, now how’re we gonna get rid of em?” I wanted to tell my friend that he should have thought about that before we gave Talbot a check for $225,000.
Two forged "Monet" paintings have been pulled from an Auckland auction today after they were discovered to be inferior imitations of a famous forger.
The fake fakes purportedly by legendary art forger Elmyr de Hory surfaced last month, offered for auction by an Auckland-based descendent of London bookmaker Ken Talbot.
"Talbot himself was a conman who established a robust cottage industry of fabricating phony works by de Hory," said Mark Forgy, de Hory's friend, personal assistant and sole legal heir.
Forgy wrote about Talbot's copycats in The Forger's Apprentice: Life with the World's Most Notorious Artist.
Makes you wonder if the paintings that ff bought were in fact genuine de Hory's or fake de Hory's by Talbot!
Forgy's book sound like it might be an interesting read!
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Post by Bownarrow on Apr 15, 2020 22:16:07 GMT -5
John and I had flown to London in the mid 80’s to see a former shop keeper by the name of Bill Talbot, who had been a pawn broker on the island of Ibiza when Elmyr lived there. Bill had loaned the artist money and taken paintings as collateral. I don’t think Elmyr ever intended to reclaim his work because it was too easy for him to paint new canvasses.
"Talbot fabricated an oft-told story that he acquired hundreds of works by Elmyr in exchange for unpaid loans. All this is just nonsense," Forgy said yesterday. Forgy now monitors online auction sites for fake de Hory works and has added the latest pair to the collection."
Sounds like ff's Elmyr de Hory's were probably not genuine!
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