24 Oct 2013

Forger Carl Feodor Goldie dies

8:45 pm on 24 October 2013

The painting forger Carl Feodor Goldie, who replicated hundreds of famous New Zealand art works has died. He was 89.

Born as Karl Sim in Mangaweka, Carl Goldie began his art career in Foxton where he opened an art and antiques store.

He sold one of his own original works as a C F Goldie painting and later sold works under the names of Rita Angus, Francis Hodgkins and Colin McCahon.

Sim was finally caught in the mid 1980s, convicted on 40 counts of forgery and given a hefty fine.

Roger Blackley, Associate Professor in the Art History Programme at Victoria University, says Karl Sim has his own place in New Zealand art history - even as a forger.