Refusing to be remorseful for his misdeeds, Hebborn believed the art world itself was to blame. In some cases, these dealers even asked him to "find" Old Master drawings, which he forged and then sold to them. In his memoir, Drawn to Trouble, Eric Hebborn claimed he forged this etching, which ended up in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. Both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have disputed that they own works by Hebborn. The mythic art world swindler met an unsettling end; in 1996, Hebborn was found with his skull fractured in Rome, where he had resided for 30 years.

Source: CNN October 24, 2019 14:15 UTC