Fernand Legros, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fernand Legros

French art dealer

Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1931

Place of Birth: Ismaïlia, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1983

Profession: art dealer, film actor, art forger

Nationality: United States, France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Fernand Legros (French: [l?g?o]; 26 January 1931 – 7 April 1983) was an art dealer who for over a decade, from the middle 1950s until the late 1960s, sold the forged artworks of Elmyr de Hory, an artist and "the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time" (taken from the title of Clifford Irving's biography of de Hory, "Fake!", published in 1969).