World Art Medals from the Collection of Dr Stephen Martin

France, Loïe Fuller, 1900, a cast bronze medal by P. Roche for the SAMF, robed figure of Fuller dancing, rev. un étre qui n’etait qve lumière or et gaze between orchids, 72mm, edge stamped 127 (Coll. R. Marx 98; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, 6; BDM V, 144-5; The Medal 44, p.42; cf. DNW 42, 1436). Extremely fine and rare (£150-200)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, World Art Medals from the Collection of Dr Stephen Martin.

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Bt H. Simmons.

Plate 6 and back cover. Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), dancer, producer and playwright. Fuller gained great fame in Europe for her innovative dances and clever and imaginative use of coloured electric lighting. She was painted by both Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas