Searle at Seventy

Searle at Seventy

Searle at Seventy

By: Ronald Searle, 1990
Medium: struck bronze, silver plated
Size: 70mm
Cast by: Fattorini
Issue: The Medal, no. 17 (1990)
Edition: 80

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The artist described this medal as a ‘Medal in Commemoration of a Mini-drama. No. 1 in a series of Great Classical trivialities’, and added ‘I feel that it is rather appropriate that there can be an occasion when a satirist can deflate himself publicly and take a little of what he likes to deal out to others!’ The snake around Laocošn forms the figures ‘7’ and ‘0’.