Submitted by Gary Arseneau, Dec 6, 2007 01:55

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Listed as a "first major U.S. examination of Henri Matisse's sculpture in nearly 40 years..."{1} for the price of admission: "Adults $15, Seniors $12, Students $10 and Ages 6-18 $6"{2} not including city-state-federal grants{3}, corporate sponsorship{4} and "Matisse-Inspired Shopping"{5} in The BMA Shop, the Baltimore Museum of Art's opening October 28, 2007 to February 3, 2008 Matisse, painter as sculptor exhibition is a "knowing misrepresentation of the truth or concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment"{6} which one legal definition of -FRAUD-.

The Baltimore Museum of Art's "Major Retrospective of Matisse's Sculpture"{7} contains only -ONE- possible Henri Matisse sculpture, a 1903 "painted plaster"{8} titled: "Madeleine I."{9}

Of the seventy-four so-called "sculptures,"{10} listed in this Matisse, painter as sculptor exhibition catalogue, fifty-five (74%) are non-disclosed reproductions and thirteen (18%) are posthumous forgeries,{11} with counterfeit signatures and inscriptions and edition numbers applied, making sixty-eight (92%) of them "something that is not what it purports to be"{12} which is one legal definition of -FAKE-.

So, whether in life, much less in death, when it came to the creation of the so-called Henri Matisse sculptures in this exhibition, it is admitted that "Matisse depended on others."{13}

FOOTNOTES 1. August 15, 2007 Baltimore Museum of Art's "BMA Present Major Retrospective of Matisse's Sculpture" Press Release. 2. Ibid 3. Ibid "The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts. Additional organizing support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities, The Richard C. von Hess Foundation and The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation."4. Ibid "The national tour of Matisse: Painter as Sculptor is presented by Bank of America, the exhibitions' exclusive corporate partner. Presentation in Baltimore is generously sponsored by the The Rouse Company Foundation and Jeanette C. and Stanley H. Kimmel." 5. www.artbma.org/ 6. page 670, Seventh Edition of Black's Law Dictionary, ISBN 0-314-22864-0 7. August 15, 2007 Baltimore Museum of Art's "BMA Present Majore Retrospective of Matisse's Sculpture" Press Release. 8. page 267, Matisse, painter as sculptor catalogue ISBN-10: 0300115415 ISBN-13: 978-0300115413 9. Ibid 10. August 15, 2007 Baltimore Museum of Art's "BMA Present Majore Retrospective of Matisse's Sculpture" Press Release. 11. "The act of fraudulently making a false document or altering a real one to be used as if genuine." "While it is true that there is a distinction between fraud and forgery, and forgery contains some elements that re not included in fraud, forgeries are a species of frau. In essence, the crime of foregery involves the making, altering, or completing of an instrument by someone other than the ostensible maker or drawer or an agent of the ostensible maker or drawer." 37 C.J.S. Forgery 2, at 66 (1997). Seventh Edition of Black's Law Dictionary, page 661, ISBN 0-314-22864-0 12. page 617, Seventh Edition of Black's Law Dictionary, ISBN 0-314-22864-0 13. page 73, Matisse painter as sculptor catalogue. Ann Bolton's "The Making of Matisse's Bronzes"

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