MAILBID 37

A Postal Auction of Medals post 1945

SIMMONS GALLERY

 

CLOSING DATE: Thursday 3 May 2007 At 12 noon BST

 

 

 An important collection of European medals from 1950’s-1980’s formed by Roman Weyl

The medals came mainly from the Paris Mint, the Medal Museum in Wroclaw and various other small exhibitions in the Netherlands, Poland, Austria and Germany during the Soviet era.  His preference was for the abstract.  Where possible references or notes from the collector are given.  Many of the medals are quite heavy so weights are given as a guide to postal costs. 

 The casts are generally all in extremely fine condition with only slight handling; however the metal used in the countries of the former Soviet Union did not contain much copper and surfaces are sometimes porous or  rough.

Reserve-estimate 

108.             

 

Adam, Henri-Georges (France)  Conque  (Conch) 1969,  abstract triangular form with mysterious signs engraved or punched into the medal;.  Much of Adam’s work deals with the interaction of the sea with the land; according to the original catalogue entry these signs, gathered over time in the natural world, are intimations of another space.   120mm cast bronze MP CFO 237 ed.10/100  1.4 kg  handling marks so EF 

 Adam, 1904-1967, head of the workshop at the Monnaie, monumental sculptor, designed the stage set for Sartres’s Les Mouches)

80-150

109.             

 

Baudichon, R (France) Sarah Bernhardt, actress with a list of her most famous roles on the reverse and a view of the open-air amphitheatre at Aix en Provence.   1967 restrike of  the rarely seen original medal.  EF, boxed. 

 

20-35

110.              

 

Belo,  (Andre Belot) France Aristophane(s) 1966 imaginary portrait of the Greek poet, laureate of course:  with an evocation of this satire The Birds on the reverse.  160mm cast bronze MP CFO 129 ed. 5/75  1.5kg (Belo 1908-1976, sculptor; Maillol bought his first work.)

 

75-200

111.              

 

Bezombes, Roger (France) Janus  Mask of a moustachioed man with curly beard and hair, with two pairs of glass eyes, one embedded in his forehead:  rev. a woman’s face with two glass eyes for earrings.  For Bezombes, Janus is both masculine and feminine.  120mm cast bronze and glass  MP 55 (general collection) fonte enrichie 1.1kg

 

75-125

112.              

 

Caillois, Roger (France) Le Venus dans le galet  a play on found objects, with Venus emerging from the bronze pebble, as if sea-born.  90x50mm cast bronze MP ed. no.6/150, 0.75kg

 

50-100

113.              

 

Carasso, Fred (Netherlands) Leda and the Swan cast bronze  52x55mm dark, almost black patina, small sculpture for the hand  EF

 

40-65

114.              

 

Charon, Maurice (France) 300th anniversary of the Death of comic playwright Moliere; portrait after Mignard; rev. Malade Imaginaire The hypochondriac as played by Moliere in one of his most famous plays.  MP 4718 81mm  black patina highlighted  (Charon trained as a goldsmith and became Engraver at the Monnaie de Paris)  EF

 

15-20

115.             C

 

Chromy, Bronislaw (Poland)  Copernicus 500th anniversary of his birth 1473-1973.  Edition of 12 cast bronze/brass embellished. 154mm.  published by Wroclaw Museum of Medallic Art.   0.7kg

 

75-125

116.              

 

Chromy, Bronislaw (Poland) Fur Tierfreunde  Animal Lovers medal  1961 100x115mm  Three  owl-like creatures on the obverse - the piercing allowing the third to be seen on the reverse which reads:  Pierwsza Wystawa Rzezbna Plantach Krakow 1961, 0.6kg

 

40-75

117.              

 

Courroy, Luisette-Jeanne (France) Christmas Night (Noel) 1972 A stable within a rock is surrounded by a starry sky filled with angels while on the reverse a group of people, magi, draw near to the great star; cast bronze 145mm MP CFO 460 ed. 1/50 rare,  1.3kg

 

65-125

118.              

 

Couturier, Robert (France) Three Graces (Les Trois Graces);  Couturier’s unusual semi-abstract style conjures up three female figures intertwined; on the reverse a reclining female form is seen at the edge of a moonlit sea; signed C.64. (1965) 140mm.  cast bronze MP CFO 25 ed. 26/175,  0.7kg

 

75-125

119.              

 

Esser, Piet (Netherlands) Rembrandt  1988 50mm. cast bronze (PK edition)  good patina showing the impressions of finger and thumb  made in the clay model by Esser.  The Rembrandt self portrait was a theme Esser returned to over and over again in his work.  0.2kg

 

50-75

120.             

 

Habdas, Franciszek (Poland)  50 Years of Free Poland  1918-1968  with 110mm. cast bronze with Eagle centre  (NB not a double headed eagle) Signed H and FH superimposed in intaglio.  0.7kg

 

35-60

121.              

 

Habdas, Franciszek (Poland)  Pour ma mere (for Mother) 1968;  hands enclosing the heart shaped piercing at the centre of the medal, with the text in 5 languages; the reverse is a stylised bunch of flowers.   100mm cast bronze  MP CFO 19 ed. 8/100, 0.6kg

 

35-50

122.             

 

Habdas, Franciszek (Poland)  For the Opening of the Medal Museum Wroclaw 1965  Double headed eagle with text in Polish.  Reverse an abstract image of the building and the year.  0.5kg

 

35-50

123.             

 

Havelka, Adolf (Czech Rep.) Form  abstract design - drilled hole on reverse so that it can be displayed on wall 110x70mm.  1968,  cast bronze  0.5kg uniface

 

40-75

124.             

 

AH (Havelka?)(Czech?) Renouveau de la Medaille, signed AH,  in intaglio a female nude form emerges from the medal, like the classical personification of Charity feeding the medal/metal 74mm yellow bronze/brass  0.4kg - uniface

 

30-45

125.             

 

Helleberg, Berndt (Sweden)  Havet Ger-Havet Tar (Give and Take) a meditation on the subject 1955 cast bronze, 90x110mm.  0.5kg

 

60-100

126.             

 

Helleberg, Berndt (Sweden) Hiroshima - Quo Vadis?  1967 The shape of the medal, breaking apart shows the aftermath of the bomb - the reverse shows our pathway, again in ruins but going nowhere.  cast bronze 50mm. 0.3kg

 

60-100

127.             

 

Hoffinger, Luise (Austria), Untitled  energetic abstraction in a year of political turmoil in Europe,  very high relief (28mm) 1968 yellow bronze 90mm.  0.5kg

 

40-60

128.             

 

Holme, Siv (Sweden) Matutinale - Morning - abstract design responding to morning light through a window. cast bronze 1967, 115mm. MP ed.14/120, 0.5k

 

45-65

129.             

 

Jeckel, Juliette (Hungary) Adagio 1972 according to the MP catalogue the simplicity of these ample curves reflect moderation and contentment - a lovely albeit heavy sculpture to enjoy,  heavy, cast bronze 140mm. MP CFO 425 ed. 6/150, 1.3kg

 

75-150

130.             

 

Korski, Witold (Poland) French Medals Exhibition in Wroclaw 1971, Marianne with her revolutionary bonnet with the dove of peace; rev. text with French cockerel crowing.  92mm cast bronze/base metal ed. 30 signed on edge W. Korski   0.3kg Professor Korski (Cracow), architect and sculptor,  passionate about medals, issued many privately but did not  feature heavily in FIDEM exhibition catalogues

 

40-60

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