A Corcoran real-estate veep — nabbed for selling $84,000 in bogus Damien Hirst prints — is an artist wannabe who once plastered the West Village with 20,000 postcards to promote his own photo show.

“There always seemed to be something a little fishy about him,” one colleague said of Richard Silver, who pleaded guilty yesterday in a Manhattan court to forging appraisals. His lawyer said his client thought the works were real.