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Elisif "Siv" Ingeborg Muse Holme (June 27, 1914 — May 12, 2001) was a Swedish painter and sculptor.

Personal Life
Holme was born in Uppsala county, Sweden, to parents Edward and Molin Holme. Her father was a sea captain and harbor master in Skutskär, belonging to the Skutskärs parish where Siv Holme was born. Training at the New Painting School, Holme stud

ied under the artistic care of Nils Adler-Laurentsson before moving to Paris in 1936 to attend the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Académie Colarossi, and Académie des Beaux-Arts in the studios of Othon Friesz and André Lhote.

In 1937 Holme engaged and married her first husband, the Hungarian journalist and author Ali Farkas. Later, between the years 1946 and 1947, Holme met the American artist Isaac "Ike" Lane Muse (1906–1996); an acquaintance resulting in his third marriage and her second. The pair eventually moved to Silly-Tillard after WWII, a small commune in northern France, where they would have two children (Marya and Bjarne) and live the remainder of their lives.

Career in Europe
Holme worked in a variety of media including pen, ink, oils, gouache, charcoal, and was a practiced etcher and sculptor. Holme's painting and sculpture works exhibited widely across Sweden, having shown in Gävle, Uppsala, and Stockholm art galleries with special critical attention afforded to her portraiture. Swedish author Karin Bong notes how Holme ''received many beautiful praises for her art. Her portrait of the Hungarian author Mikas is painted with fine value perception and exquisite characteristics, it is an interesting and living person who looks at us from the canvas.''

Holme collaborated with many international organizations, in demand for her hand-made medallions. In 1996, UNESCO commissioned Holme to construct the organization's first-ever commemorative medal, a metallic token to celebrate their 20th anniversary.

IBM, similarly, commissioned Holme to produce a medal honoring the company's local employees after 10 years of service. The silver coins, struck by the Administration des Monnaies et Médailles, reflected her impressions of contemporary Paris on one side, and the world of high technology on the other.