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Pygmalion and Galatea
1982
Object Place: South Carolina, United States; Mint: Danbury, Connecticut, United States
Medium/Technique
Patinated bronze
Dimensions
Overall: Diam: 7.6 x 0.6 cm (3 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Katharine Lane Weems
Accession Number1989.572
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
Catalogue Raisonné
Brookgreen 10
DescriptionObv: Pygmalion stands in front of a nude Galatea on a pedestal with his arms outstretched / PYGMALION AND GALATEA / KAREN WORTH
Rev: Nude figure of Orpheus playing the lyre with birds and animals around him / BROKGREEN GARDENS * SOUTH CAROLINA / © 1981 MACO - BRONZE
Rev: Nude figure of Orpheus playing the lyre with birds and animals around him / BROKGREEN GARDENS * SOUTH CAROLINA / © 1981 MACO - BRONZE
ProvenanceCollection of Katharine Lane Weems; to MFA November 1989.