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This five dollar silver proof piece is part of a set commemorating Australian Art of the Twentieth Century which is itself
within the premier Masterpieces in Silver series. Eight of Australia's greatest artists have been showcases in this set with
four released in 2006 and 2007. This 2007 piece commemorates the life and works of Grace Cossington Smith with the reverse
featuring her painting 'The Curve of the Bridge'. It was designed by Vladimir Gottwald in an impressive attempt to copy what
was originally a large-scale artwork onto a small silver coin. The
Grace Cossington Smith was an Australian painter and early supporter of the modernism movement. (Daniel Thomas, 1988) She was born in Sydney in 1892 where she began studies under painter Antonio Rubbo before travelling and studying in England and Germany. Cossington Smith became known for her bright expressive colours and was heavily influenced by post-impressionist painters Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Gauguin. In the 1920s she produced a series of paintings that showed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in construction - one of which was used as the basis for this coin. After being awarded an Order of the British Empire she retired from painting before dying in 1984.
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