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A BBC Antiques Roadshow guest was in disagreement following the valuation of a remarkable bronze sculpture. The unique item had been carved by the woman's mother in the 1900s.
Programme host Fiona Bruce paid a final visit to Swanage Pier in Dorset during the latest episode. Expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan was tasked with evaluating the item and gushed over the sculpture, the Mirror reports.
He said: "I absolutely love this portrait bust. I think it's an amazing, skilful piece of work. I mean, it's a really beautiful sculpture. You've got to tell me all about this," as the guest replied: "It was carved by my mother when she was teaching in South Africa at a school in about 1925, she was there quite a few years. She was there as a young woman about 23, to set up a school of sculpture and modelling at the invitation of the director of the Slade School of Art in London."
The expert went on: "Slade was the epicentre of art at the time. She would have studied all the greats to come up with this. She is a really brilliant sculpturist. This is over brimming with suppressed energy and power that sounds like an oxymoron. But she must have sat with the sitter, just to get to know him and to try and understand him and get inside his head and feel about who he was.
"We have to remember that this was done in South Africa at a time where people that look like him were living in this world of suppression. This is the Phoenix that rises from the ashes of those awful times."
Ronnie praised the guest's mum Margaret, who is known as Peggy. He continued: "We've still got the excellence of your mother, here in this sculpture. I love the way she's done his tight curls on his head, she's left what we call the ads marks as the texture of his hair."
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