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Portugal. THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS – MONUMENT TO CHRIST THE KING. By Alves. Cast bronze studio model, 125mm. From the archive of the Delande Company in France. $150

Price: $150.00

SKU: Q5573-14058-8R

 

1926, France. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. By Pierre Turin. Published by Soci?t? Fran?ais des Amis de la M?daille. Cast bronze 85mm. Stamped 51 on its edge. $450. ————- 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 ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He studied medal engraving under Henri Auguste Jules Patey and Fr?deric-Charles Victor de Vernon. He participated several times in the competition for the Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving, receiving a deuxi?me 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 L?gion d?Honneur. Turin died on July 25, 1968 in Sucy-en-Brie, where he had been born.

Price: $450.00

SKU: 8394-19330-12B

 

Belgium. RENOUVEAU (Renewal). By Godefroid Devreese (1861-1941). Uniface cast bronze plaquette 116mm x 92mm. Poels,Vandamme & Van Driessche 92. $450. ———— Godefroid Devreese was one of Belgium’s most prolific medallists. He was born at Courtrai in 1861. He studied sculpture under his father and later at the Academy of Brussels. In 1885 he won the second Grand Prix de Rome. In 1889 he won the first Grand Prix for sculpture at the Academy of Brussels and a gold medal at the International Exposition in Cologne. A brief biography and a complete catalogue of his medallic works is provided in GODEFROID DEVRESE 1861-1941 by Poels, Vandamme and Van Dreiessche.

Price: $450.00

SKU: 0493-14295-8T

 

France. ARMEE FEMININE. By Robert Cochet. Bronze 59mm. Obv: A female soldier in front of a double cross. Rev: A sword and a circle of shields. Cat. Gen. vol 4 pt 1 409/A. $125. ———
Robert Cochet was born in 1903. He studied at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was a student collaborator with Carli and Lucien Bazor. He was a soci?taire of the Salon des artistes Fran?ais. In 1954 he won a diploma and medal that international exposition in Madrid.

Price: $125.00

SKU: 30428-6C

 

1915, Romania. HEAD OF A CHILD ? INFANZIA IN TE SI SPERA (Hope in Childhood). By J. Sorain. Uniface cast bronze 109mm. $125

Price: $125.00

SKU: Q0595-14747-2R

 

France. VICTOR HENRI ROCHEFORT, MARQUIS DE ROCHEFORT-LU?AY (1831 ?1913) Politician. By A. Labadie. Uniface cast 197mm. Ring for suspension on the reverse. Casting flaw at the bottom. $275

Price: $275.00

SKU: J1021-13683-9G

 

1935, France, U.S.A. THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF THE ‘NORMANDIE.’ By Jean Vernon. Bronze 69mm. Obv: A standing female holding reins and releasing a rearing seahorse. Rev: The Normandie under steam. Maier 333. $225. – – – – – Jean Vernon (1897-1975) studied at the ?cole? des Arts D?coratifs and at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is noted, among collectors, in particular for his series of medals depicting scenes from Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables.

Price: $225.00

SKU: 48096-2D

 

France: J. DELAFON – PRESERVATION AGRICOLE ET SES AMIS. By G. Rispal. Bronze 53mm x 70mm. $100

Price: $100.00

SKU: Q7428-15058-7R

 

1936, France. THE SEINE. By Marcel Renard. AE 59mm. Obv: A nude female personification of the Seine with a ship in the background. Rev: Four shields. Cat. Gen. III 338/A. $95.
Marcel Renard, sculptor and medallist was born at Lyon in 1892. He studied at the ?cole des Beaux-Art de Lyon and then at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He spent time in the ateliers of Boucher and Patey. In 1923 he won the Premier Second Prix de Rome and a gold medal at the Salon des Artistes D?corateurs. He died in 1974.

Price: $95.00

SKU: P5-10655

 

1948, France. (Printing). CENTENARY OF THE DISCOVERY OF PANICONOGRAPHY BY FIRMIN GILLOT. By Jean Vernon. Bronze plaquette 66mm x 92mm. Obv: Bust of Firmin Gillot facing right. Rev: Incuse inscription. $75. ———- Jean ?mile Louis de Vernon (known as Jean Vernon) was the son of medallist and sculptor Fr?d?ric-Charles Victor de Vernon. He was born in Paris on April 1 1897. Vernon studied at the ?cole des Arts D?coratifs and at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under Jules Coutan and Hippolyte Jules Lef?bvre. He first exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais in 1922 and won a silver medal in 1924 and a gold medal in 1936. Vernon worked primarily as a sculptor, but created medals, including his famous series of medals depicting scenes from Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables. He died in Paris on September 9 1975.

Price: $75.00

SKU: 0298-16827-3A

 

1986, France. PARIS. By P. Roch. Cast copper 97mm x87mm. $125

Price: $125.00

SKU: 14265-P9

 

(1933), France. ALPINISME. By Marcel Renard (1892-1974). AE 68mm. OBV: A mountaineer standing on the top of a mountain. REV: Crossed skis and a sled. Cat. Gen. vol 3 343/H. $150

Price: $150.00

SKU: L11-13425

 

1929, France. VIVE BOURGOGNE. By Louis Bouchard. Cast bronze 110mm. Obv: Bust of a man sampling wine. Rev: workers harvesting grapes. Published by the Soci?t? Fran?ais des Amis de la M?daille. Stamped 151 on its edge. $475. ———- Henri-Louis Bouchard, sculptor and medallist, was born in Dijon on December 13 1875. He studied at the Acad?mie Julian and in the studio of Louis-Ernest Barrias before entering the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Bouchard became a professor at the Acad?mie Julian in 1910. He won the first Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1901 and a medal of honor for sculpture at the Exposition des Art D?coratifs in 1925. He participated in the sculpture event (one of five categories in the Art Competition) at the Olympic Games held in Paris in 1924. In 1941 he was a member of a group of French artists who were invited by Joseph Goebbels to take a grand tour of Nazi Germany. Upon his return he spoke favorably of the status afforded artists in Germany. Following the Liberation of Paris in 1944, he was suspended from his professorship and branded as a collaborator and widely ostracized. He nevertheless achieved great acclaim. Bouchard died in Paris on November 1960. Two years later his studio was opened as museum containing over a thousand items. It was closed in 2007 and its contents transferred Mus?e de La Piscine in Roubaix.

Price: $475.00

SKU: 4850-17192-5A

 

(Circa 1924), France. LANCER DU JAVELOT. (Javelin Thrower). By Jean August Briquemont (1879-1951). Uniface cast studio bronze 119mm. $450. ——— Jean August Briquemont was born in Paris in 1879. He took evening courses in drawing and sculpture in Paris. He exhibited for the first time in 1927 at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais and won a silver medal in 1937. Briquemont died in 1951,

Price: $450.00

SKU: 5994-12668-8T

 

1959, U.S.A. APACHE BUFFALO HUNT AND DANCE. By Allan Houser. Bronze 72mm. Obv: An Apache, on a horse, aiming his bow at running buffalo. Rev: An Apache fire dancer. Fifty-ninth issue of the Society of Medalists. Edge D. Alexander 59 unrecorded edge variety. Reported production of 713 in bronze. In a Society of Medalists cardboard box, but lacking its descriptive leaflet. $250.

Price: $250.00

SKU: 62650-9F