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Hair Ornament with Bust of Athena, Gold, red garnets, blue enamel, Greek, Hellenistic period, 2nd century B.C. D. 11.1 cm. Athens, Benaki Museum.
The Vienna Cameo, Greek (Ptolemaic), Early Hellenistic period, 278-270/69 B.C. Ten–layered onyx (Indian sardonyx). H. 41/2 in. (11.5 cm), W. 4 in. (10.2 cm), Antikensammlung, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (IXa 81)
‘E.O.W.’ - Estella (Stella) West - began posing regularly for Auerbach in the early 1950s, and continued to do so until 1973. By then he had completed about 80 drawings and paintings of her.