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Robert Smit
'Bello's sister' Brooch1993

Not on view
Three small decorated rectangular objects with gold-leaf and dark ground surfaces, painted with colored brushstrokes and adorned with gold wire coils and cobalt blue beads
Close-up detail of a gold-toned hammered metal surface with a grid-textured pattern, crossed by thin metal rods, bearing a handwritten cursive signature in brown.

Robert Smit, 'Bello's sister' Brooch, 1993, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Robert Smit
Netherlands, born 1941
Title
'Bello's sister' Brooch
Place Made
The Netherlands
Date Made
1993
Medium
Gold, acrylic paint, painted pearls
Dimensions
5 3/8 × 5 1/4 × 7/8 in. (13.65 × 13.34 × 2.22 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman
Accession Number
M.2016.21.55
Classification
Jewelry and Adornments
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers and Bobbye Tigerman. Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
Copyright
© Robert Smit / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / Beeldrecht, Amsterdam