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META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968)
Silence and Repose.
Pair of plaster bookends, painted gold, circa 1934. Both approximately 165x125x100 mm; 6
1
/
2
x5x4
inches. Both incised with the artist’s initials.
Provenance: private Massachusetts collection.
Silence and Repose
is a well known pair of works from Fuller’s mid-career, and are described and
photographed by her biographer, art historian Judith Kerr, in her 1986 doctoral thesis.A set was in
the artist’s Framingham home after she married Dr. Solomon C. Fuller, and was considered “the
artist’s most significant work of 1934.” Kerr describes how the symbolism of
Silence
and
Repose
are
in “the tradition of ‘ideal’ sculpture” to epitomize contemplation and enlightenment—a fitting
theme for objects associated with a library. Kerr pp. 293-4.
[7,000/10,000]