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Oliver Button Badge

$5.00 NZD

A button badge featuring the head of the Oliver doll from Cornelia Parker's work Shared Fate (Oliver) 1998.

Inspired by the doll’s unhappy expression, she used the actual guillotine used to execute Marie Antoinette to cut the doll in half. This extraordinary act made a second-hand doll of a fictional character share the same fate as a real historical figure.

 

  • 3.7mm Pin on button badge
  • Silver metal back component
  • On a backing card

 

Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.

Photo: Stephen White & Co.

 

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