Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 292 | Auction date: 6 March 2024 |
Lot number: 156 Price realized: 130 GBP (Approx. 166 USD / 152 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on |
Lot description: The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals Gáti, Gábor (Hungarian, 1937-present); b. Budapest HUNGARY, Milyen nyelv merne [What Language Would Dare?], 1982, a cast bronze medal by G. Gáti, stream passing through a wood and over rocks, unicorn seated on upper rock, two wild boar standing to right by lowest rock, back impressed szerzoi példány 10/5, 121mm, 290.27g (Mullaly, The Medal 5, p.54). Extremely fine and very rare £80-£100 --- Provenance: Simmons MBS 69, 16 December 2014 (127) Edition of 10. The late Terence Mullaly, a journalist with a particular knowledge and appreciation of modern art medals from the eastern bloc, said of this piece '[it] achieves a degree of poetical intensity which has few parallels at any time in the long history of the medal'. |