Gary Arseneau - Deception: Are These Really Rodins?

WHAT IS "COUNTERFEIT?"

This is answered in the J. Paul Getty Trust’’s "www.getty.edu" website. Under their Getty Vocabulary Program the term "counterfeit" is defined as: 

"To forge; to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud, by passing the copy or thing forged for that which is original or genuine." 

Also in Henry Campbell Black’s Black’s Law Dictionary" the term "counterfeit" is defined:

 "Use for reproductions of whole objects when the intention is to deceive; includes sculptures cast without the artist's permission. "

New York statute 11.01 defines "counterfeit" as:

 "a work of fine art or multiple made, altered or copied, with or without intent to deceive, in such a manner that it appears or is claimed to have authorship which it does not in fact possess."

Would the any "sculpture" in the "From Plaster to Bronze: The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin" exhibit be "counterfeit" if: "altered or copied, with or without intent to deceive, in such a manner that it appears or is claimed to have authorship which it does not in fact possess?" Absolutely.

What if any documentation has been presented to authenticate any of these objects promoted as "sculptures by Auguste Rodin?"