Auction Catalogue
France, 20th Anniversary of the Death of Georges Courteline, 1949, a bronze medal by R. Baudichon, bust right, rev. puppet theatre, 68mm, stamped ÉPREUVE D’AUTEUR (CGMP p.109). Reverse edge knock at 8 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine, scarce (£40-50)
Provenance:
BDW Auction 18, 15 December 1995, lot 656.
Obverse only illustrated, reduced. Georges Courteline (1858-1929), writer and humourist; the reverse type of a theatre of marionnettes symbolises Courteline’s view of an ordered world
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