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Kwai 50th Anniversary Medal – Obverse
Kwai 50th Anniversary Medal – Reverse

Kwai 50th Anniversary Medal

By: Ronald Searle, 1991
Medium: struck bronze
Size: 70mm
Cast by: Fattorini
Issue: The Medal, no. 20 (1992)
Edition: 100

Category: Gallery Tag: searle
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The medal harks back to the artist’s war-time experience as a prisoner-of-war working on the Thai-Burma railway. The artist wrote that he had tried ‘to retain a certain naivety of interpretation rather in the spirit of medieval Dance of Death imagery. The approximate anatomy that one encounters in so many gothic frescoes has been applied to the anonymous bodies that make the sleepers of the railway line.’

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