ELMYR DE HORY (2)

Orson Welles rodó una pelicula titulada "Fake" sobre estos dos personajes--Elmyr y Clifford. Como iba diciendo, Elmyr se salvó y siguió copiando a los grandes maestros (incluso vendiendo sus falsificaciones a algunos de los mejores museos del mundo, como el MOMA de Nueva York, dónde los "expertos" decían que eran originales... ) porque estas islas, en la época de Franco, estaban un poco olvidadas de la mano de Dios (la verdad es que era un oasis de libertad) pero la suerte de Elmyr cambió cuando llegó la democracia porque Francia lo quería extraditar para meterlo en la carcel por todas sus falsificaciones, pero no solo Francia iba detrás de él sino la Mafia... Yo conocí mucho a Elmyr porque venía a "La Familia" casi todas las noches, siempre acompañado de su amigo americano Mark. Elmyr era una persona muy extrovertida, buen conversador, con mucho sentido del humor, siempre llevaba la sonrisa puesta. Pero un dia vino y era otra persona--cabizbajo, pálido, triste--en fin, que no era él. No le pude preguntar qué es lo que le pasaba, se lo pregunté a Mark "pero, ¿qué es lo que le pasa a Elmyr?", me contestó "Está deshecho, completamente deshecho..." le pregunté por qué, entonces me dijo "ha encontrado a su perro favorito ahorcado de una higuera con una nota diciendo que el próximo sería el..." Dos dias despues de esta fatídica pregunta, llegó la extradición a Francia, Elmyr decidió quedarse en Ibiza, se suicidó y está enterrado en la isla. Si veis la pelicula "Fake" ya conoceis el final porque no sale en el film. Por cierto, hablando de films, recientemente Richard Gere hace el papel de Clifford Irving en "Hoax" (Trampa).

Orson Welles made a film called "Fake" basically about these two characters--Elmyr and Irving.
As I was saying, Elmyr got away with it and continued copying the great masters (even selling them to some of the best museums in the world, like the Modern Art Museum of New York, where the "experts" said they were original...) because these islands, at the time of Franco, were a bit forgotten (actually, it was an oasis of liberty). However, Elmyr's luck changed when democracy arrived in Spain, because not only France wanted to extradite him, because of all his forgeries, but the Mafia was after him also... I knew Elmyr very well because he came almost every evening to "La Familia" always with his young American friend, Mark. Elmyr had a very extroverted personality, good conversationalist and a wonderful sense of humour. He always had a smile on his face; but, one evening, he came and was sad-looking, pale, silent, I couldn't even ask him what was wrong. I asked Mark: "What's wrong with Elmyr??" Mark said: "He's destroyed, utterly, destroyed..." I asked him why and he told me: "He found his favourite dog hanged from a fig tree in front of his house with a note saying HE was next". Two days after that fateful question, the extradition to France came through, he was going to be sent to jail. He decided to stay here and committed suicide and is buried in the island. If you see "Fake" you'll notice that is mostly about these two characters and now you know the ending, because it doesn't come out in the film. Speaking about films, there is a recent picture, "Hoax", where Richard Gere plays the part of Clifford Irving.