ENGLAND/FRANCE, Walk Through Sénanques, 1986, a openwork cast bronze medal by Caroline White for the British Art Medal Society, view of part of the exterior through a hexagonal prism representing sacred geometry, rev. the interior of the cloister through a similar prism, 125mm, 706.45g (Attwood 43; The Medal 10, p.78; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.89, 333; cf. DNW 123, 509). Extremely fine, as made £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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Edition of 20, commissioned by the British Museum. The Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque, located in the village of Gordes (dép. Vaucluse), is a twelfth-century Cistercian abbey and active monastery.