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January 2014 NYINC Auction - Sess. C-D 13 January 2014
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FRANCE. Duval-Janvier, Machine for Reducing Medallic Models to Dies for Striking, 1908.
53x61mm bronze (as always), by Charpentier. Jones 345, Baxter 23. Obverse: bare-chested worker operating a coining press, a "balancier", by his own manpower. Reverse: The same image, repeated three times in descending sizes, "Reduction et Frappe de Medailles." An advertising medal.
Charpentier was not enamored of silky female images and, more than most, was content to celebrate the dignity of work. Accordingly, his worker is depicted bare to the waist, in keeping with his rigorous, sweaty task, but he is not idealized by nudity.
The Janvier reducing machine made it possible to produce medals which started in larger sizes, modeled in soft materials like wax and clay. This is, therefore, one of the most important art medals. A recent sale: Baldwin's, May 9, 2012, 200 Pounds (almost $400). EXTREMELY FINE.
53x61mm bronze (as always), by Charpentier. Jones 345, Baxter 23. Obverse: bare-chested worker operating a coining press, a "balancier", by his own manpower. Reverse: The same image, repeated three times in descending sizes, "Reduction et Frappe de Medailles." An advertising medal.
Charpentier was not enamored of silky female images and, more than most, was content to celebrate the dignity of work. Accordingly, his worker is depicted bare to the waist, in keeping with his rigorous, sweaty task, but he is not idealized by nudity.
The Janvier reducing machine made it possible to produce medals which started in larger sizes, modeled in soft materials like wax and clay. This is, therefore, one of the most important art medals. A recent sale: Baldwin's, May 9, 2012, 200 Pounds (almost $400). EXTREMELY FINE.