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Faruq and Ferda Kamar al Akbar by Willemien Franssen, bronze, 2006.
25 cm x 20 cm (9.85” x 7.87”).
A friend of mine phoned me and told me This one was not needed by Jeanny so it
she had seen a Sloughi statue in the was for sale. And it was indeed after some
window of a gallery. She is not a dog pictures Jeanny gave her - not very clear
person at all, so I thought that cannot be a ones by the way!!
Sloughi. But of course, I went to look and it
was a Sloughi. As I looked at it, I even I asked her to make a bronze of my two
thought it was a Dutch bred Sloughi, a Sloughis Faruq and Ferda in movement.
Mumtaz-I-Javanadmi Sloughi. I went in and She came over to our house, made
bought it. pictures, looked at the live dogs, lots of
pictures,
I got the details of the artist, Willemien made a wax, changed it, came again etc.
Franssen, an autodidact. I phoned her and
she lived in Rotterdam, so I visited her. She Enfin, this is the result. I was there
had made the statue for Jeanny Braakman, when the bronze was made, into the wax
5 of them, to use as a special prize for an mold. Unfortunately, I did not take
English Sloughi show. photos.
Submitted and presented by Els Siebel, the
Netherlands.
