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 | | Guy Hain’s counsel retorted that bronze sculptures were in fact reproductions and that the defendant could not be accused of having produced fakes especially as most of the pieces seized by police concerned artists whose works were no longer under copyright protection. |
 | | Guy Hain has been accused of having been in possession of 2500 illicit pieces (plasters, moulds and 1100 sculptures of which half of this amount included fakes) concerning 98 artists, notably Barye, Bourdelle, I. Bonheur, Claudel, Carpeaux, Frémiet, Maillol, Mène and Rodin). |
 | | Guy Hain, who already experienced problems with French justice on several occasions, ran a foundry called “Le Duc de Bourgogne”, a name used for his shop at the plush Louvre des Antiquaires compund in Paris that he closed in 1989. |
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