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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Sep 7, 2016 | Bonhams | Los Angeles | Coins And Medals | 101 | $****** - ****** | AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS PLAQUETTE |
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Baxter-164; Marqusee-140. 63.1 x 45.9 mm. John Flanagan, Sc. Edge incused: MEDALLIC ART CO.NY and BRONZE. Obverse: a bearded bust of Saint-Gaudens faces left. AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS/ STATUAIRE AETATIS·LVI in small letters above. Signed with Flanagan's initials and dated bottom left field: MCM (JF) XXXIV. Reverse: inscription: IN · HONOR · · ·/ OF · AN · AMERICAN/ SCVLPTOR/ AVGVSTVS SAINT/ GAVDENS · · ·. In small letters below: SCVLPTORS · DINNER · OF · THE/ MEDALLIC · ART · COMPANY · NY/ APRIL · XI · MCMXXXVII.
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This is one of the most famous of all medallic portraits of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. In 1937, the plaque was issued at the Medallic Art Company's Sculptor's Dinner. Clyde Tress, the new owner of Medallic Art Co., in an attempt to stimulate business among sculptors, scheduled a dinner where nearly 100 sculptors were invited. Tress had Henri Weil reduce a larger portrait model on the firm's Janvier. The struck plaque was given to everyone who attended as a dinner favor.
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This Saint-Gaudens portrait is one of seven known medallic portraits. The first, modeled in 1898, was by Helen F. Mears, a student-assistant of Saint-Gaudens; it was cast by Gorham Co. in 1916. James Earle Fraser's portrait of Saint-Gaudens was prepared for the 1901 Pan American Expositions as a Special Medal of Award.
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In 1904, the sculptor George T. Brewster modeled a large bas-relief portrait modeled from life at Saint-Gaudens' studio, it was cast by Gorham Co. and was used by Brewster as a reference to complete a group of eleven portrait medallions of artists, including Saint-Gaudens, for the exterior of the Palace of Art at the Saint Louis World's Fair.
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In 1928 sculptor Warner Williams created a Saint-Gaudens portrait, reason unknown. This Flanagan portrait of 1934 followed. In 1969 Ralph J. Menconi put Saint-Gaudens on his Statehood Medal of New Hampshire, the state's most famous citizen. In 1971 Stanley Martineau created a Saint-Gaudens portrait for the Hall of Fame Series. A rare offering for the astute collector. Uncirculated, with golden brown patina
