Newly arrived anNew and contemporary medals for sale from Simmons Gallery

 

Ron Dutton's Sheep Storm Lakeland sheep sheltering from the rain and wind behind a traditional drystone wall, the images forcefully drawn from the wax, leaving the marks of the artist's hands and sculptor's tools; edition of 5 only in silver, originally produced in bronze 1982 in an edition of 25 (sold out). price upon application. Finally February 2009 sees Ron Dutton as the recipient of the prestigious Sanford Saltus medal for significant achievement in medallic art, awarded by the American Numismatic Society. As a founder member of the British Art Medal Society and its past president, as well as President of FIDEM Ron continues to promote the medal and inspire! Congratulations!

France/NZ: Marian FOUNTAIN, Bar Code medal - commissioned by GENCOD EAN FRANCE 2003 Cast (lost wax). Obverse: Fern, bone structure and microchip patterns are combined to show their similarities Reverse: A magnification of ‘personalised’ spores of the fern represent the personnel in this Bar Code company. Cast bronze 100mm. GBP 250

 

Marian FOUNTAIN Entente Cordiale - Franco-Britannique 1904-2004.

bronze medal GBP 60

USA, Leonda FINKE - Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's own

Portrait of the writer; with the reverse Leonda's expression of the essential need for space and freedom in which to think and create.

BAMS 59, 1989, ed.63, cast bronze, 98x80mm approx. GBP 175

 

Hungary, Janos KALMAR - Head

1984, BAMS 21, ed. 28, A medal for BAMS (British Art Medal Society), 97x66mm approx, cast bronze GBP 125

UK, John LOBBAN (1919-1996) Joie de Vivre

1995/6 BAMS 129, ed. 36 cast bronze 86mm, finished and published posthumously by Avril VAUGHAN, cast by the Royal Mint, high relief, GBP 125

This medal symbolises all John's great loves - wine, art, sex, racing, nature, literature and general fun. He was a graphic designer as well as a sculptor and medallist, known for his illustrations of Paddington Bear as well as his work for the Royal Mint and the Franklin Mint. This was his last medal, the reverse half worked but unfinished when he died. So Avril, his partner, finished it for casting and oversaw the patination for its publication by BAMS.

 

John MAINE - a silver medal for the 250th Centenary of the BRITISH MUSEUM - a fundraiser.

While a bronze version of this medal, struck by the Royal Mint was available for purchase during 2003 the silver version was not available to the public. We have only a very few examples for sale, with all proceeds going to the British Museum (less a handling charge) for future medal projects. Boxed, as made, hallmarked on edge 63mm. GBP 500

See The Medal magazine no.42, Spring 2003, pp 83-91 for Philip Attwood's article on the commissioning of the medal through competition, and for the inspiration and genesis of the design of the Maine medal,and its relationship to the British Museum's building, its continuing work and ethos.

 

 
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