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France, Conférence de Paris, 1946, a bronze medal by R. Cochet, standing robed female turning her back on the horrors of war and regarding a naked baby in a Moses basket, rev. ship of Paris, 68mm (CGMP p.410; cf. DNW 38, 855); Death of Adrien Tixier, 1946, a bronze medal by G.-H. Prud’homme, three-quarter bust left, rev. cross of Lorraine, legend below, 68mm (CGMP p.1513) [2]. About extremely fine and better, both scarce (£40-50)

Adrien Tixier (1893-1946), politician and Ministre de l’Interieur; the medal of him by Prud’homme was the last work executed by the artist. Further biographical detail of Tixier is sold with the lot