Lot Archive

Lot

№ 973

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21 March 2001

Hammer Price:
£80

France, Psyché et Cupid, c.1940, a bronze medal by M. Gaumont, winged allegory of Cupid supporting naked female figure of Pysche, reverse legend in Greek in four lines [translated as…and by the soul], 80mm. Minor spots of vedigris on obverse, otherwise very fine, reverse better, rare (£30-50)

For Centauresse, another medal by Gaumont in the same series, see Baudey/Bricher 1992, 194, and BDW 13, lot 400