Artist: Cornelia Parker 

Full Title: We know who you are. We know what you have done. 

Date: 2008

Limited Edition: 4/13

Provenance: Private Collection in Massachusetts. Previously purchased from Fifth Street Gallery, London. Certificate of Authenticity and provenance paperwork included with the lot. 

Dimensions: 1 1/2" Diameter of Coin 

Condition: The coin is in an acrylic frame and stand. It is in very good condition. Please see images for details. 

Artist Bio: Cornelia Parker (b. 1956) is one of the leading British artists of her generation, known for subjecting ordinary objects to dramatic transformations and then suspending what remains. Born in Cheshire, she studied at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and the University of Reading and came to wide attention with "Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View" of 1991, a garden shed blown up by the British Army and reassembled as a hanging cloud of fragments around a single bulb. Earlier she had flattened a hoard of silver plate under a steamroller. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1997 and is a Royal Academician.

Coins, medals and silver recur throughout her work as small carriers of value, power and history. In 2009 the British Museum exhibition "Medals of Dishonour" invited artists to revive the tradition of the satirical medal, and Parker's contribution took aim at the faceless official corrupted by power. "We Know Who You Are. We Know What You Have Done," struck in silver, works in that same vein, its title reading like an anonymous warning.