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Create new listFountain, Marian (New Zealander, 1960-present); b. Papatoetoe, emigrated to England 1984, moved to Italy 1985, then France 1990
ENGLAND, The Muse and the Mother, 1990, a cast bronze medal with gilt highlights by Marian Fountain for the British Art Medal Society, naked muse to front, holding life cord as a skipping rope, rev. naked female with life cord entangled in her baby in foreground, 115 x 98mm, 383.49g (Attwood 72; The Medal 18, p.124; cf. DNW 127, 3198). Extremely fine £90-£120
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.
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bt A.C. Eimer, August 2001
Edition of 42. The medal takes its title from a metaphor of two states of womanhood.
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