MB109359 Bronze cast medal sculpture Hieronymus Bosch 1969. A limited edition issued by the Monnaie de Paris, no. 4/100 by Roger Courroy CFO 227 (23rd selection). Courroy was awarded the Prix du Renouveau de la Medaille in 1970.
Roughly modelled imagined head of person/fish, left. The eye fixed in the middle of the head
Reverse: A series of knife blades and cuts, symbolising the cruelty and the fantastic landscapes that Bosch depicted in his paintings. The style evokes the materials that Bosch used and the vigour of his fantastic imagination: oak wood for canvas, knives to mix paints
Hieronymus Bosch d. 1516 early Netherlandish School of painting, Brabant
