The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals (Part I)

FRANCE, Gauguin, 1952, a bronze medal by J.C. de Lapeyrière, effigy of the painter in front of a Breton Christ-like figure on a cross, rev. a Tahitian woman lounging to right, bird at right, foliage behind, edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 59mm, 111.94g (CGMP p.1156; cf. iNumis MBS 44, 1458). Extremely fine, green patina £50-£70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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bt A.C. Eimer, May 2007

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French post-impressionist artist who spent the last decade of his life in French Polynesia. The obverse image is taken from Gauguin’s Self Portrait with Yellow Christ, painted in Pont-Aven in 1890-1 and purchased for the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, in 1994/