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France. SOCIÉTÉ CANINE DU SUD-EST. By Richard Fath (1900-1952). Bronze 49mm x 49mm. $60.

Richard Fath was born in 1900. He was a French sculptor who worked in various media suchas bronze, terracotta, plaster, carved wood and marble. He was a student of Jean Boucher and exhibited at the Salon beginning in 1925. He is noted in particular for his sculptures of animals, especially dogs. He also created some medallic works including a few with a strong art deco style. Fath died in 1952.

Price: $60.00

SKU: A0615-16026-1T

 

1936, France. EXPOSITION DU TRAVAIL, PAU. By Édouard Fraisse. Gilt-bronze 50mm. $100.

?douard Fraisse (1880-1945) was born at Beaune. He studied under Barrias, Coutan, Chaplain and Vernon. He collaborated with Henry Demey on numerous medals and plaquettes that typically depicted figures in action. He was made a chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur.

Price: $100.00

SKU: A7694-15631-LS

 

France. PAUL VALERY, Poet. By Paul-Marcel Dammann (1885-1939, Grand Prix de Rome 1908). Bronze 68mm. $135.

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: $135.00

SKU: 7516-17319-8a

 

France. SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DES HABITATIONS – BON MARCHÉ (French Society of Affordable Housing). By Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839-1909). Uniface studio cast 256mm. Maier 72. $775.

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: $775.00

SKU: 0857-14049-3A

 

1958, France, Medicine. DR. A.P. RICHARD, SOMATOLOGIST – HÔPITAL SAINT LOUIS. By Pierre Turin (1891-1968), Published by Arthus Bertrand. Bronze 70mm. $90.

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: $90.00

SKU: 30883-9C

 

1898, France. Printing. BICENTENARY OF L’IMPRIMERIE L. DANEL. By Oscar Roty (1846-1911. Grand Prix de Rome, 1875). Silvered-bronze 50mm. $150

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: $150.00

SKU: 2542-18088-10A

 

France. TÊTE D’ENFANT. By Pierre Turin (1891-1968, Grand Prix de Rome in 1920). Uniface bronze 55mm. Catalogue Général Illustré vol 3 383/H. $175.

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: $125.00

SKU: 8930-17739-10A

 

1914, Netherlands. SIESKE. By Johannes-Cornelis Wienecke for the Société Hollandaise/Belge de la Médaille d’Art. Bronze 48mm x 48mm. Buchet & Toussaint 37. $175

Johannes-Cornelis Wienecke was born to Dutch parents in Heilidenstadt, in Saxe-Prussia on March 24 1872. He studied at the Quellinus School in Amsterdam and the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Antwerp. He spent five years in Paris, where he studied at the Acad?mie Julian, the ?cole des Beaux Arts and the Libre Acad?mie Colla Rossi. He worked under Auguste Patey at the Monnaie de Paris. Wienecke returned to the Netherlands and became an engraver, and later head engraver at the Royal Mint in Utrecht. He won the silver medal in sculpture in the Prix de Rome in 1896. He created about three hundred medals over the course of his career, remaining faithful to the art nouveau style he had been introduced to in Paris. Weinecke died at Apeldoorn on November 8 1945.

Price: $175.00

SKU: 8404-16143-2T

 

1935, Belgium. 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNION INTERNATIONAL DE TRAMWAYS DE CHEMINS DE FER D’INTÉRÉT LOCAL AT DES TRANSPORTS PUBLICS AUTOMOBILES. By Franz Huygelen (1878-1940). Silvered-bronze 81mm. $375.

Franz Huygelen was born on19 August 1878, in Antwerp. He studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp and, under Thomas Vin?otte, at the Hoger Instituut. He won the Belgian Prix de Rome. Huygelen died at Ukkel in 1940. He created a number of medals, which were struck in a large format without a border. They have a distinctive, free-flowing style.

Price: $375.00

SKU: A7676-16073-1T

 

1909, France. DR. SCHIFFERS. Signed JH. R. Cast bronze plaquette 92mm x 160mm. $600

Price: $600.00

SKU: 3082-12060-1T

 

France. SECURITÉ SOCIALE. By André Léon Galtié (1908-after 1976). Bronze 64mm. $50.

Andr? L?on Galti? was born in Toulouse on February 26 1908. He won a silver medal in 1944 at the Salon des artistes Fran?ais. Galti? died at Brian?on on August 4 1983.

Price: $50.00

SKU: 4263-15682-6T

 

1940, France, printing and publishing. LE MATIN (Newspaper). By Robert Cochet (1903-1988). Bronze 77mm. Cased. $100. Sorry, SOLD

Robert Eugène Joseph Cochet was born in Paris on May 6, 1903. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure 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 Français 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: $0.00

SKU: 8198-16492-12A

 

1984, France. FRANÇOIS ISAAC DE RIVAZ, Inventor of the Internal Combustion Engine. By Lucien Gibert. Copper 76mm.  Club Française de la Médaille. Number EE of a limited edition of 100. $100

Price: $100.00

SKU: 30896-JD

 

France. PAUL RIVET, Ethnologist and Americanist. By Paul Poisson. Bronze 81mm. $150 Pierre-Marie Poisson was born on 19 November 1876 in Niort (Deux-Sèvres). He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Toulouse and later moved to Paris to study sculpture. He received a scholarship for the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algeria in 1908. He worked primarily as a sculptor and only turned to creating medals later in his career.

Price: $150.00

SKU: 42012-JD

 

1918, Germany, Finland. TREATY WITH FINLAND. By Karl Goetz. Cast Iron Medal 58.5mm. Kienast 207. $325

Price: $325.00

SKU: 46084-JD