Karl Sim pictured at the Auckland Art Gallery in 1997 with the famous original and his infamous copy of C F Goldie's A Good Joke. PHOTO/APN
Mangaweka's biennial Fakes & Forgeries expo will be a month too late for the north Rangitikei town's famous son, Karl Sim.
The celebrated forger - the first New Zealander to be convicted of art forgery - died in Auckland on October 21, aged 89.
He was born in Mangaweka.
His
memory will be "honoured" at the Fakes & Forgeries expo on November 16 when artists are invited to copy a painting masterpiece.
But they will not try to pass their work off as the original - unlike Sim, who was born in Mangaweka in 1923, and copied great Kiwi artists such as Rita Angus, Charles F Goldie, Francis Hodgkins, Colin McMahon and Petrus van der Velden, signing their names to his work. He also forged Rembrandts and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
