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1937, France. EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS ET TECHNIQUES. By Pierre Turin. Silver 69mm (stamped 2ARGENT on its edge). Catalogue Général Illustré volume 3 382/B. Lightly cleaned. $600

Pierre Turin was born in Sucy-en-Brie (Val-de-Marne) on 3 August, 1891. He trained as a steel engraver and became a student at the École Nationale Supèrieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He studied medal engraving under Henri Auguste Jules Patey and Fréderic-Charles Victor de Vernon. He participated several times in the competition for the Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving, receiving a deuxième second Grand Prix in 1914, a premier second Grand Prix in 1919 and finally winning the competition in 1920. He had a distinguished career as a medalist and designer of coins.  He is noted for his many works with a bold, Art Deco style, in particular the prize medal from the 1925 Exposition Internationale Des Arts Decoratifs Et Industriels Moderns in Paris. In 1938 he was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. Turin died on July 25, 1968 in Sucy-en-Brie, where he had been born.

Price: $600.00

SKU: 30420-6C

 

France. AGRICULTURE. By Marie-Alexandre Coudray. Silvered-bronze plaquette 101mm x 63mm. Obv: Two oxen pulling a plow. Rev: A man with a scythe. Catalogue Général Illustré vol. 3 102/E. $175.

Marie-Alexandre Lucien Coudray was born in Paris on February 21 1864. He studied at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts and was a student of Dumont, Thomas, Allouard and Ponscarme. In 1893 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving for Orph?e endort Cerb?re aux sons de sa lyre (Orpheus putting Cerebus to sleep by the sound of his lyre), In 1898 he won a first prize at the Salon and a silver medal at the Universal Exposition. Coudray?s best known work is his portrait of Orpheus, which was offered for sale by the Monnaie de Paris, at the Universal Exposition in 1900. 4,500 examples which struck to meet the demand. Coudray died in 1932.

Price: $175.00

SKU: 4867-20693-4C

 

1934, France. ACADEMIE DES SCIENCE COLONIALES. By Jean Descomps. Silver (2ARGENT). 68mm. Cased. $400.

Jean-Bernard Descomps was born at Agen on May 14, 1872. He studied under Falgui?re. He won an honorable mention in 1901 and a third-class medal in 1903. Dscomps died on August 11, 1948

Price: $400.00

SKU: 8509-20449-2C

 

France. HORSE AWARD. By C. Kristesco. Bronze 58mm. $75

Price: $75.00

SKU: 30421-6C

 

France, medicine. HENRI HALLOPEAU. By Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839-1909). Bronze 68mm. Maier 87. $250.

Jules-Cl?ment Chaplain (1839-1909) was born at Mortagne. He entered the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1857. He studied under the sculptor, Jouffroy, and Eugene-Andr? Oudin?, the medallist. He won the first prize at the Concours de Rome in 1862. He studied in Italy from 1864 to 1868. Cahplain was elected to the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts in 1881 and became an officer of the L?gion d’Honneur in 1888.

Price: $250.00

SKU: 30413-6C

 

1986, France. LION. By Jacques Birr. Uniface copper 73mm. $125

Price: $125.00

SKU: 3429-20659-4C

 

1963, France. SOCIÉTÉ DE COMPTABILITÉ DE FRANCE. By Coutre. Bronze 59mm. In a circular cardboard box. $40.

Robert Coutre, sculptor and medallist, was born in 1915. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was a student of Dropsy, Bouchard and Wlérick. He won the second Grand Prix de Rome in medal engraving. He exhibited frequently and won several prizes.

Price: $40.00

SKU: 5911-17148-7A

 

France. FIRE FIGHTING AWARD. By Georges Contaux. Bronze 50mm. $40.

Georges Contaux was born on September 22, 1891 in Paris. He entered the ?cole Boulle, where he studied sculpture and engraving. He joined the 26?me R?giment d?artillerie de campagne at Chartres in 1911. Contaux was wounded during World War I and had two fingers amputated. In 1921 he received an honorable mention at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais. From 1922 to 1923 he worked for the engraver Pierre Lasserre (1870-1943). He then established himself at Vigneux-sur-Seine, where he remained, for the rest of his life, working as a sculptor and medallist. We was a prolific medallist producing about twenty-five hundred medals over the span of fifty years from 1930 to 1980. About fifteen hundred of his medals were religious, another eight hundred related to sports and about 150 were portrait medals. Contaux died at Vigneux-sur-Seine on September 15, 1984.

Price: $40.00

SKU: 7128-30686-8C

 

France. NUDE CHILD WITH A FAUN. By Victor Peter. Bronze 50mm. $90.

Charles Victor Peter was born at Paris on December 20 1940. He studied art over the objections of his parents. He was a pupil of S?bastien Cornu, Fran?ois Th?odore Devaulx and Alexandre Falgui?re. He exhibited at the Salon and won a medal in 1879. He won a gold medal at the Universal Exposition of 1900. Peter worked in various media, but specialized in sculpture and medallic art. As a medallist, Peter is best known for his depictions of animals. He became professor of sculptur at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieur des Beaux-Arts in 1901 and was made a chevalier of the L?gion d’Honneur. Peter died on March 20 1918.

Price: $90.00

SKU: 30633-8C

 

1938, France. 16TH FAIR AND EXPOSITION, BRIGNOLES. By Robert Cochet. Bronze 42mm. $45.

Robert Eug?ne Joseph Cochet was born in Paris on May 6, 1903. He studied at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where specialized in designing medals coins and small bronzes under Auguste Carli and Lucien Bazor and. He began exhibiting at the Salon des artistes Fran?ais in 1929 and was made a member. In 1954 he won a diploma and medal at the international exposition in Madrid. Cochet died at Moulins on July 26, 1988.

Price: $45.00

SKU: 30631-8C

 

France. LES ÉCOLES D’ART, FRANCE. By Ovide Yencesse. Bronze 50mm. Lightly cleaned. $150.

Ovide Yencesse (1860-1947) was born at Dijon. He studied under Ponscarme, Thomas and Levillain at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He was director of the ?cole des Beaux-Arts at Dijon. He won gold medals at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais in 1900 and in 1920. Yencesse was made a Chevalier of the L?gion d?Honneur in 1900. Many of his medallic works have a distinctive, subtle effect using a soft, shallow relief.

Price: $150.00

SKU: 30632-8C

 

1929, France. AUTOMOBILE CLUB DU NORD DE LA FRANCE. By Raoul Bénard (1881-1961). Gilt-bronae 63mm. Cased. $125.

Raoul B?nard was born on 30 September, 1881. He studied under the sculptor Coutan and the medallists Chaplain and Vernon. In 1911 he won the Prix de Rome for medal engraving and, in 1922, a silver medal at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais, followed by a gold medal two years later. He was later made a Chevalier de la L?gion d?Honneur. B?nard died in 1961.

Price: $125.00

SKU: 0346-17559-3B

 

1956, France. SEMEUR (“The Sower”). By René Baudichon. Gilt-bronze plaquette 42mm x 63mm. Obv: A man sowing seed. Rev: A field of wheat under harvest. Catalogue Général Illustré vol. 3 24/A. $75

Price: $75.00

SKU: 19069-9B

 

1958, Finland. EXPOSITION OF FRENCH TECHNOLOGY, HELSINKI. By Roger Baron. Bronze 70mm.$100.

Roger Baron, sculptor and medallist, was born in 1907. He was a student of Paupion and Wl?rick and he worked in the atelier of Maxime Real del Sarte.

Price: $100.00

SKU: 50011-2D

 

1938, France. SOUVENIR MEDAL FOR A VISIT TO THE RENAULT FACTORY. By Paul-Marcel Dammann (1885-1939, Grand Prix de Rome 1908). Bronze 80mm. $100. Sorry, SOLD (October, 2025)

Paul-Marcel Dammann, sculptor and medallist was born on June 13, 1885, at Montgerm. He studied under Chaplain. In 1908 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving. In 1928 he won a medal of honor at the Salon and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in the following year. He designed a number of coins for foreign governments. Dammann died in 1939.

Price: $0.00

SKU: 16241-4A