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1881, France. EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE D’ÉLECTRICITÉ. By Oscar Roty (1846-1911. Grand Prix de Rome, 1875). Bronze 80mm. Maier 91. $450.

Louis Oscar Roty was born at Paris on June 11, 1846. He initially studied painting at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts under Lecoq and Boisbaudran. It is reported that he lost the money for a paint box and subsequently enrolled in a life-drawing class and thence into sculpting. This trajectory would eventually lead to his career as the most celebrated medallist of his time. Along the way, he studied in the atelier of the statuary Augustin Dumont and under Ponscarme, Chapu and Chaplain. He won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1875. Roty spent three years in Rome, where he modeled a number of waxes. In 1888 he was elected to the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts. He took the grand prize at the International Exposition in 1889. Roty was a commander of the L?gion d?Honneur. He was responsible for reintroducing the plaquette, an art form that had been neglected since the Renaissance. His ?Semeuse? (sower) was widely used on French coins and stamps. He died in Paris on March 23, 1911.

Price: $450.00

SKU: 20483-8C

 

France, World War I. GENERAL GAMELIN. By Pierre Lenoir. Bronze 68mm. $75

Price: $75.00

SKU: 48051-2D

 

1933, France.CHAMBRE SYNDICALES DES INDUSTRIES AÉRONAUTIQUES. By Claude Mascaux (1882-1965). Bronze 68mm. $250.

Léon-Claude Mascaux was born in Saine-Germain-en-Lay (Yvelines) on June 13 1882,  He studied under the sculptors Landowski and Bouchard. He first exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Beaux Arts in 1921. In 1924 he won a medal in the artistic comptetion of the Olumpic Games. In the following year he won a Grand Prix at the Exposition des Arts Déoratifs et Industriels Moderns for a series seven sports-themed medals. Unlike his contemporaries, he eschewed the reducing machine and cut his models directly into the plaster in the actual size of his intended medals. His medals typically reflect a strong Art Deco style. Mascaux died at Fontainebleau on March 8 1965.

Price: $250.00

SKU: 8405-16660-2A

 

1946, France. PORTEUSE DE FLEURS – A.E.C. By Pierre Turin. Octagonal bronze 71mm. $250.

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: $250.00

SKU: 48053-2D

 

France. VILLE DE BOIS-COLOMBES. By Marc-Edmond Jacquin. Uniface bronze plaquette 49mm x 76mm. $125.

Marc-Edmond Jacquin was born on February 28 1901 at Paris. He studied at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais from 1936 to 1937. He worked primarily as a sculptor. His works are represented in several public collections in France. Jaquin died in 1974.

Price: $125.00

SKU: 7730-17139-5A

 

1915, France. ÉTOILE, OU T’EN VAS TU, DANS CETTE NUIT IMMENSE? (Star, where are you going in this immense night?). By Étienne Victor Exbrayat (1879-1914). Published by La Gerbe d’Or. Embossed brass plaquette 106mm x 70mm. $60.

?tienne Victor Exbrayat, sculptor, engraver and medallist, was born at Saint-?tienne on May 12, 1879. He received an honorable mention at the Salon des artistes fran?ais in 1904 and received a troisi?me m?daille in 1911. Exbrayrat became a member of la Soci?t? des Artistes Fran?ais in 1905. Following the outbreak of World War I, he was made a corporal in the 16e r?giment d’infanterie, he died of battle wounds at the Ch?teau de Bains at Boulogne-la-Grasse on October 1914.

Price: $60.00

SKU: 53039-8D

 

1924, Germany. UNKNOWN FEMALE PORTRAIT. Karl Mueller (1888-1972). Uniface cast bronze 94mm. $90

Price: $90.00

SKU: 9982-15554-10T

 

1920, France. LE GROUPE DE PARIS DES ANCIENS ÉLÉVES DE L’ÉCOLE CENTRALE. By René Baudichon. Bronze 52mm x 66mnm. $100

Ren? Baudichon was born at Tours on March 24, 1878. He was a student at the ?cole des Beaux-Art at Tours and later at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux Arts. He studied under Ernest Barries, Fran?ois Sicard, Fr?deric-Charles Victor de Vernon, and Oscar Roty. He was admitted to the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais in 1903, where he won a bronze medal in 1904 for a plaque commissioned by the Chamber of Commence of Blois. He later won a silver medal in1914 and a gold medal in 1921. He designed numerous medallic works, but also worked as a sculptor and caricaturist. Baudichon died in Paris in 1963.

Price: $100.00

SKU: 50006-2D

 

France. SPORTS. By P. Vannier. Bronze plaquette 49mm x 50mm. $150

Price: $150.00

SKU: 50009-2D

 

France. AGRICULTURE. By Hippolyte Lef?bvre (1863-1935), Gilt-bronze 46mm. $60.

Hippolyte Lef?bvre, sculptor and medallist was born in Lille. He studied at the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts in Lille, where he won first prizes in drawing and sculpture. He later entered the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he won numerous prizes. He exhibited at the Salon and won the Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture in 1892. Lef?bvre won gold medals for medals that he exhibited at the 1900 Universal Exposition.

Price: $60.00

SKU: 3049-15551-5A

 

France. ANDROMÉDE. By Raymond Joly (1911-2006), published by the Société Français des Amis de la Médaille. Bronze 100mm. $450.

Raymond Joly (1911-2006, Grand Prix de Rome 1942) began to study sculpture in 1937 and entered the atelier of Henry Dropsy in 1939 at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieur des Beaux-Arts. He won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1942.

Price: $450.00

SKU: 3720-17334-5A

 

1955, Belgium. 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROYAL MOTOR UNION, LIEGE. By Robert Van Velde. Bronze plaquette 54mm x 87mm. $150. Sorry, SOLD (June, 2023)

Price: $0.00

SKU: 1809-19127-6B

 

France. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880), Writer. By Julien-Prosper Legastelois (1885-1931). Uniface cast bronze 137mm. $275.

Julien-Prosper Legastelois (1885-1931) was born in Paris. He studied under the sculptor, Carltier and medal engraving under Levasseur, Roty and Tonnelier. He won various distinctions during the course of his career and was made a Chevalier de la L?gion d?Honneur.

Price: $275.00

SKU: 8428-16863-5B

 

France. VERDUN – TRIBUTE TO VICTOR DUCAMP. By Robert Coin. Bronze plaquette 61mm x 80mm. In a slightly damaged case. Plaquette has slightly bumped corners. $90

Price: $90.00

SKU: 42005-2D

 

1981, France. 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VILLAGE D’ENFANCE S.O.S DE FRANCE. By Revol. Bronze 68mm. $60

Price: $60.00

SKU: 2033-16096-2T