France, aviation. MOTHER AND CHILD WITH A DOVE – ŒUVRES SOCIALES DE L’AIR. By Georges Guiraud (1901-1989. Grand Prix de Rome, 1926). Bronze 50mm. Cased. $120.

Georges Guiraud was born at Toulouse on August 5, 1901. He was the son of Albert Guiraud, who was a painter and illuminator of documents. Guiraud studied at the ?cole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse and later at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked in the workshop of Jean Boucher. Guiraud won the First Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1926. He died at Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple (Marne) on May 12, 1989.