Stacey Pierrot is guilty of attempted Art Forgery, when she alleged ‘Dunkin the Frog’ was painted by Christine Rosamond Benton. Faulkner’s biography may also have been a forgery because she claims she had interviews with Christine. Art forgery is the creating and selling of works of art which are falsely credited to other, usually more famous artists. Art forgery can be extremely lucrative, but modern dating and analysis techniques have made the identification of forged artwork much simpler.
I demand Faulkner make public the notes of the alleged interview with my sister. I demand Vicki Presco and Shamus Dundon take a lie detector test to prove they are not lying about what happened at Rocky Point.
An art forger must be at least somewhat proficient in the type of art he is trying to imitate. Many forgers were once fledging artists who tried, unsuccessfully, to break into the market, eventually resorting to forgery. Sometimes, an original item is borrowed or stolen from the owner in order to create a copy. Forgers will then return the copy to the owner, keeping the original for himself. In 1799, a self portrait by Albrecht Dürer which had hung in the Nuremberg Town Hall since the 16th century, was loaned to Abraham Wolfgang Küfner (de). The painter made a copy of the original and returned the copy in place of the original. The forgery was discovered in 1805, when the original came up for auction and was purchased for the royal collection.
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