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Lot 476

Silver gilt weight lifting medal, dated 1919

Lot 478

Gilt metal Queen Victoria double sided Jubilee medal in a silver mount

Lot 1016

A silver 1837 commemorative Queen Victoria Jubilee medal coin. The medallion depicting the 'old head' bust. VICTORIA ANNVM REGNI SEXAGESIMVM FELICITER CLAVDIT XX. Measures approx 55mm in diameter. 

Lot 1019

A hallmarked silver Spencer & Co masonic medal marked up for the Westminster & Keystone Lodge No 10. Hallmarked for London, 1921. Held upon a blue ribbon with pin to the back and Presented to W. Bro. AR Appach by the Westminster Keystone lodge of services rendered as W. M. 1920-1921. Within original fitted Spencer & Co fitted presentation box. Total weight 16.50g. 

Lot 1030

A Queen Elizabeth II silver Coronation medal marked Queen Elizabeth II - Crowned 2nd June 1953. weight approximately 27g. 

Lot 1035

A WW1 World War One campaign service medal for 1914-1915. Marked T3=03.0885 PTE. A. E. CLARK. A. S. C. Together with a silver another WW1 George V medal marked GEORGIVS BRITT. OMN: REX ET IND. IMP with St George in relief on horseback to verso with 1914 - 1918 above, upon the 1914 ribbon. Marked 48528 PTE. A APPLEBY. N. STAFF. R. Total weight 62.8g. Silver approx 34g.  .

Lot 104

A George V silver Hackney Horse Society medal, on suspension ring, hallmarked by Mappin & Webb, Birmingham, 1910, 1.59 ozt (1) 

Lot 288

A collection of items to include: a gilt metal Masoni pendant, with enamelled cross and rose above an eagle; a silver Masonic medal London 1901 George Kenning, for St Andrews Lodge, a silver medallion fob along with other metal versions, white metal and marcasite brooch, silver ring and other metal rings, Art Deco watch a/f missing glass wear and tear,  etc (1 bag)

Lot 3475

Collection of pewter vintage cars with wall shelf, vintage car plaques, copper and reproduction WWII Dad's Army medal with commemorative stamp

Lot 168

A collection of British and world coins. Including a cased limited edition Metropolitan police nickel silver medal and various white metal Georgian coins.

Lot 582

SCOUTING, postcard, Medal of Merit, by Johnson & Sons, pu Goole 1910, VG

Lot 701

ROWING, signed postcard by Steve Redgrave, h/s wearing his five gold medals, overmounted with 2000 Olympiad participation medal, framed & glazed, 10 x 18 overall, EX

Lot 354

Mixed medals and badges to include a For Efficient Service medal and a General Service medal, both named H.W MortimerLocation:

Lot 173

Three long service medals, Certificate of Service book and photographs for George Shirley, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1910-1937Numbers around the rims of the medals:George V Medal: 1406126 W.O. CL. I.G Shirley. R.A1914-18 Medal: 34328 W.O. CL. 2.G Shirley R.AGeorge VI Medal: 1406126 W.O. CL 1.G Shirley R.A

Lot 281

A 1953 Coronation medal and certificate, two 1937 Coronation medals, a 1977 Jubilee crown and a 2002 Jubilee crown

Lot 376

A collection of ten medallions and tokens, comprising; a George III pewter medal by Kirk, 35mm diameter, a Whitchurch Trademans Society pewter medal, 50mm diameter, a Victoria Diamond Jubilee 1897 gilt medal cross, an Earls Court Gigantic wheel 1904, 30mm diameter, a Nags Head Bowling club two penny brass token, a George IV Province of Nova Scotia one penny token 1824, Belgium marriage of Duke and Duchess of Brabant 1853, 32mm diameter, Germany fist world war medal 1916, 40mm diameter, Germany Nazi war medal 1941-42 and U.K. Imitation Balmberger Victorian farthing (10)

Lot 369

A collection of thirteen Great Britain coin folders, together with a collection of pre-1947 silver, a large collection of cupro-nickel and bronze U.K. and Foreign coinage, a Wolverhampton School Award medal, a Nottinghamshire 1935 Silver Jubilee medal (a lot)

Lot 1514

London 2012 Olympic Team GB Olympic and Paralympics gold medal winners, all in miniature sheets in special presentation folder 

Lot 1433

Two folders containing a collection of GB Benham Medal covers (27)

Lot 354

Victorian silver horticultural medal in case, novelty miniature bronze blacksmith's anvil, 1916 shell case base and a hand bell, tallest 23cm

Lot 136

19thC oil on canvas portrait of a man with sword, dagger and order or similar medal with cape and feather headdress, with putti in flight playing a harp in the sky above, the man standing before a calm sea, 15.5 x 12cm, in ornate period gilt frame

Lot 352

Hallmarked silver suffragette Hunger Strike medal awarded to Frances Outerbridge, engraved with her name and dated March 1st 1912, in original named case with gilt inscription 'Presented to Frances Outerbridge by the Women's Social & Political Union in recognition of a gallant action, whereby through endurance to the last extremity of hunger and hardship, a great principle of political justice was vindicated'. Also included in the lot is a lock of the recipient's hair in a vintage jewellery box and two lorgnettes.Frances Outerbridge was born 1847 in Roath, Cardiff, to Stephen Arthur and Anne Outerbridge (nee Williams). Frances's paternal lineage is from an eminent Bermuda family and her uncle was Thaddeus Outerbridge, a prominent political figure and businessman in Bermudian society. In 1895/6, at the behest of his daughter the famous suffragette Anna Maria Outerbridge, Thaddeus Outerbridge unsuccessfully petitioned the Bermudian parliament for Suffrage, but although the bill to enfranchise women was passed in the house of assembly, it was defeated in the legislative council and the women of Bermuda had to wait until 1944 for the right to vote. It is hard to believe that the cousins Anna Maria and Frances Outerbridge were not in regular contact, given that they shared a common cause.Frances Outerbridge is later found in the 1891 Census aged 44 and living in the Bow district of London, in the same dwelling as Caroline Lowder Downing aged 35, both trained nurses. It appears the two women had a lifelong friendship. Caroline Lowder Downing is also Suffragette Hunger Strike medal recipient, her medal is held in the UK Parliamentary Art Collection. She was arrested in 1909, 1910 and 1911, and took part in a window smashing on 1st March 1912, for which she appeared at the London Bow St Sessions on the 19th March and was imprisoned in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham. Here she went on hunger strike and as was the common practice, was force fed (Winson Green was one of the first prisons to adopt this). It is highly likely that Frances Outerbridge took part in the same action due to the date on her medal being the same as Downing's, but her name does not appear in any Suffragette records that we can find, leading us to believe she may have given a false name when arrested. Arrest records for the same day as Caroline Downing show a Frances Williams with identical arrest date and appearance at Bow Street, which suggests that Frances Outerbridge gave the name Frances Williams (using her mother's maiden name) when arrested, hence why, despite the naming on the medal, she does not appear in any official list of Hunger Strike medal recipients under her real name.This lot is consigned for sale by a direct descendant of Frances Outerbridge.

Lot 351

Suffragette interest - a silver plated twin handled tray with inscription 'Presented to Miss Downing and Miss Outerbridge by the Congregation and Parishioners of St Mark's, Victoria Park as a token of affection and in appreciation of their self-sacrificing labours among the sick and poor of the parish for ten years, March 1898'. Downing and Outerbridge both later received the WSPU Hunger Strike medal - see next lotFrances Outerbridge was born 1847 in Roath, Cardiff, to Stephen Arthur and Anne Outerbridge (nee Williams). Frances's paternal lineage is from an eminent Bermuda family and her uncle was Thaddeus Outerbridge, a prominent political figure and businessman in Bermudian society. In 1895/6, at the behest of his daughter the famous suffragette Anna Maria Outerbridge, Thaddeus Outerbridge unsuccessfully petitioned the Bermudian parliament for Suffrage, but although the bill to enfranchise women was passed in the house of assembly, it was defeated in the legislative council and the women of Bermuda had to wait until 1944 for the right to vote. It is hard to believe that the cousins Anna Maria and Frances Outerbridge were not in regular contact, given that they shared a common cause.Frances Outerbridge is later found in the 1891 Census aged 44 and living in the Bow district of London, in the same dwelling as Caroline Lowder Downing aged 35, both trained nurses. It appears the two women had a lifelong friendship. Caroline Lowder Downing is a Suffragette Hunger Strike medal recipient, her medal is held in the UK Parliamentary Art Collection. She was arrested in 1909, 1910 and 1911, and took part in a window smashing on 1st March 1912, for which she appeared at the London Bow St Sessions on the 19th March and was imprisoned in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham. Here she went on hunger strike and as was the common practice, was force fed (Winson Green was one of the first prisons to adopt this). It is highly likely that Frances Outerbridge took part in the same action due to the date on her medal being the same as Downing's, her name does not appear in any Suffragette records that we can find, leading us to believe she may have given a false name when arrested. Arrest records for the same day as Caroline Downing show a Frances Williams with identical arrest date and appearance at Bow Street, which suggests that Frances Outerbridge gave the name Frances Williams (using her mother's maiden name) when arrested, hence why, despite the naming on the medal, she does not appear in any official list of Hunger Strike medal recipients under her real name.This lot is consigned for sale by a direct descendant of Frances Outerbridge

Lot 1436

A large presentation folder containing the RAF honours, decorations and medal series. Nineteen large covers each carrying the signatures of seven Captains, Wing Comanders, Marshalls or other airmen whose gallantry has been recognized by the award shown. 

Lot 217

A long service medal from commonwealth war graves commissioned to F. A Halls (28 yrs service) in case.

Lot 343

Silver jubilee (1910-1939) tin with medal and handkerchief and a city of Birmingham card

Lot 268

After Antoine Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875). Lion and boar, reconstituted white marble, replica Exposition Universelle 1889 medal inset to base, 28cm x 40cm.

Lot 542

A pair of WWI Great War and Victory Medals, named to Pte A Coe, King's Royal Rifle Corps, R-31324, who died on 25th September 1918, age 22, Remembered with Honour, Vadencourt British Cemeter, Maissemy, IV.F.6., an Imperial Service Medal named to John Hancock, badges, ribbons, etc. (a quantity)

Lot 220

A group of WWII medals comprising a group of five awarded to C.F. Evans, future husband and wife medals comprising a Defence medal award to Miss D Longton and a Special Constabulary medal award to Frank H Creer with tags, together with five re-issued miniatures un-named.

Lot 338

Stamps - QEII FDC collection in five binders, 1967-2000, including six coin/medal covers, some typed addresses including special commemoratives and f/v £60, plus 1967-8 p/packs and 1981 wedding folder

Lot 415

A bronze medallion, Royal Horticultural Society; others similar; a National Service medal (5)

Lot 402

A COLLECTION OF WAR RELATED MEDALS TO INCLUDE WWII MEDALS, TOGETHER WITH THREE EMPTY MILITARY MEDAL ALBUMS

Lot 462

A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE COINS AND MEDALS TO INCLUDE A PAPAL STYLE MEDAL AND AN 1889 CROWN

Lot 111

Four miscellaneous items, comprising:- a magnifying glass with a peweter hand handle, a R.E.M.E. regimental insignia, a black medal ribbon with rose metal attachments and a snuff box/match holder in the form of a Victorian penny (4)

Lot 144

A George VI Royal Air Force Long Service and Good Conduct medal to F/SGT. D.K. Smithson R.A.F. 362615, together with a group of four WWII campaign medals in their original cardboard box; a set of Miniatures comprising; a George V MBE, British War Medal and Victory Medal and a hallmarked silver George V 'Reward of Diligence' recruiting medallion (qty)

Lot 194

3 silver watch chains and a  silver medal for the Bakewell runners up 1904-05, total weight 160 grams

Lot 195

A 9 ct gold watch fob with mounted stones and a 9 ct gold medal with an inscription finalists NSGA  1911-12 , total weight 16 grams .

Lot 689

Collection of old tins , the matching pair are for C W S biscuits , 5 cm high , 17 cm x 11.5 cm diameter , a fuller's peppermint lumps , 2 first prize medal flies tins by Foster Bros , Ashbourne  , a Songster needles tin , a Thorn's toffee tin and 2 Player's whiskey tobacco tins . (9)Condition , some wear

Lot 1104

Various costume jewellery, silver medal, coin bracelet etc

Lot 1754

WW2. RAF Collection of 5 DM Medals Covers with some Fantastic Signatures. Appointment to the Excellent Order of the British Empire DM Medals Cover, Signatures include Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, Air Marshal Sir Paul Holder, Earl of Selkirk, AVM Sir Colin Scragg, AM Sir John Whitley, AM Sir Geoffrey Tuttle and ACM Sir Denis Smallwood Postmark Jersey 1st December 1985. The Award of the Air Efficiency DM Medals Cover, Signatures include AM Sir Denis Crowley Milling, Grp Capt HG Davies, AVM FL Dodd, AVM AVR Johnstone, Air Commodore Hon Sir Peter Vanneck, Wing Cdr HM Stephen and Wing Commander Don Kingaby Postmark Jersey 1st Oct 86 with Jersey Stamp. The Award of the George Medal to Airmen DM Medals Cover, Signatures include AVM R Bullen, AM Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, AVM JA Gray, Sqdn Ldr MJ Lakey, Master Air electronics Operator J Reeson, Flt Lt D Oliver and Air Commodore JA McCarthy Postmark Jersey 1st July 97 with Jersey Stamp. The Award of the Air Force Medal Dm Medals Cover, Signatures Include Warrant Officer John W Allen, Flt Sgt Ty Barraclough, Sqdn Ldr Peter Crouch, flt Lt John Donnelly, Sqdn Ldr Robert Lockhart, Sqdn Ldr Jack Emmerson and Flt Lt Ronald T Emeny Postmark Jersey 1st Sept 87 with official Jersey Stamp. The Defence Medal DM Medals Cover, Signatures include AVM Sir Alan Boxer, ACM Sir Brian Burnett, Flt Lt T Franks, ACM Sir Peter Le Cheminant, AM Sir Peter Wykeham, AVM Sir Laurence Sinclair and Wing Cdr Peter B Lucas Postmark 1st Sept 88 with 4 official stamps. Superb Collection, Well Sought After. Good Overall Condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Lot 99

JUAN BARJOLA (Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Badajoz, 1919 - Madrid, 2004)."Girl, figure".Marker pen on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner.Attached certificate issued by José Antonio Gadea.Measurements: 70 x 50 cm, 82 x 62 cm (frame).Belonging to the current of representational expressionism, Juan Barjola is one of the most outstanding Spanish painters of the second half of the 20th century. Even as a child he showed a love of drawing, which led his parents to guide him along the path of art. At the age of fifteen Barjola arrived in Badajoz to begin his training, and entered the city's School of Arts and Crafts. Fully committed to his incipient career, in 1943 he moved to Madrid, where he first studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Calle La Palma and later at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts. At the same time, he furthered his training at the Prado Museum, where he copied Velázquez and interpreted Goya, Brueghel, El Greco and Bosch. During this period, which ended in 1950, Barjola produced a series of academic works of a naturalistic style, with themes taken from family life, suburban characters and other genre scenes. Towards 1950 he began a new post-cubist phase, the prevailing trend in Madrid at the time due to the influence that Daniel Vázquez Díaz exerted on an entire generation. During these years Barjola would develop faceted images, with a flat treatment and cold, bluish colours. At the same time, he began to develop a new, more constructive stage, marked by earthy colours. In 1957 Barjola made his solo debut at the Abril gallery in Madrid, and that same year he held two more solo exhibitions in Brussels, at the Theatre and Vallvora galleries. He then embarked on a brilliant exhibition career that took his work to Europe, Japan, the United States and Latin America. Around 1958 he began a short but intense period in which he experimented with an abstract language in which the pictorial material took centre stage. His work was now marked by thick, sumptuous impastos of sordid, dark colouring, which made up abstract, organic still lifes. This was the heyday of the material abstraction led by Tàpies from Barcelona. A year later, without the thick impasto disappearing, the organic stains began to be resolved into human embryos, the result being a return to figuration in line with the international trend initiated by Francis Bacon. Barjola thus became the main Spanish representative of the New Figuration. At the same time his work became increasingly recognised; in 1960 he received a grant from the Juan March Foundation which enabled him to travel to Paris and Belgium, and in 1963 he was awarded the Eugenio D'Ors Medal by the critics. That same year he exhibited at the Dirección General de Bellas Artes, and shortly afterwards he won the National Drawing Prize at the National Exhibition (1968). Towards 1964 his work underwent a new evolution, marked by the paintings of Velázquez, Goya and El Greco.

Lot 40

JOSEP MARIA SUBIRACHS SITJAR (Barcelona, 1927 - 2014)."Maternitat", 1979. Edition 5/9.Bronze sculpture on marble base.Signed by the artist and with the seal of the founder Manuel Parellada.Measurements: 16 x 8 x 5 cm (figure); 12 x 10 x 8 cm (base).This sculpture from the end of the 70's takes up again one of the favourite themes of the author in this period, the female figure, whose physiognomy generally responds to a somewhat mannerist canon. In it we can observe a great formal scrupulousness, mastery of technique, contrasts of styles and juxtapositions of materials, models that define Subirachs' personality, to the point that the play of figurative-abstract dualism, myth-reality, form-symbol, innovation-repetition, positive-negative, painting-sculpture - becomes the emblem that distinguishes the production of one of the most representative exponents of sculpture in the second half of the 20th century.After entering the workshop of a gilder who was fond of sculpture at the age of fourteen, where he modelled his first works in clay, in 1942 he entered the workshop of the sculptor Enrique Monjó as an apprentice. Five years later he began to work as an assistant to Enrique Casanovas. In 1948 he made his debut at the Casa del Libro in Barcelona, and in 1951 he travelled to Paris to complete his training, with a scholarship from the Institut Français in Barcelona. He returned to his native city in 1953 and was awarded the Sculpture Prize at the Jazz Salon. After two years working and exhibiting in Belgium he returns to Spain, and in 1958 he is awarded the Gran Premio San Jorge by the Diputación de Barcelona and the "Julio González" by the Cámara Barcelonesa de Arte. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States, and in 1988 he was awarded the Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts. In 1980 he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge. He is represented at the Centro Reina Sofía, the MACBA Museums in Barcelona, Ibiza, Seville and New York, the Fine Arts Museums of Bilbao, Birmingham, the Vatican, Taipei and Nebraska, the Museo al Aire Libre del Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, the Petit Palais Museum in Geneva and the Millesgärden in Stockholm, among others.

Lot 36

AGUSTÍN ÚBEDA ROMERO (Herencia, Ciudad Real, 1925 - Madrid, 2007)."Bird that turns into gold".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner and titled on the back.Measurements: 64 x 80 cm; 78 x 94 cm (frame).A large format work which presents us with a discordant world, where through a realistic language, the author constructs a fantasy.a surrealist painter, framed within the so-called Spanish School of Paris, Agustín Úbeda was a great connoisseur of the History of Art and a man of wide culture. He entered the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1944, where he was a disciple of Vázquez Díaz, Eugenio Hermoso and Joaquín Valverde, receiving the title of professor of drawing in 1948. He made his individual debut in 1949 at the Casino of Alcázar de San Juan, and in 1952, at the age of twenty-seven, he held his first personal exhibition in Madrid, which took place at the Xagra gallery. The following year he moved to Paris, thanks to a grant from the French Institute. After winning two consecutive prizes in the Certamen de Joven Pintura Francesa, a second prize in 1956 and a first prize the following year, the doors of the prestigious Drouant-David gallery in Paris were opened to him, where he regularly exhibited his work from then on. In 1960 he received the Molino de Oro at the XXI Exposición Manchega de Valdepeñas, and three years later he was awarded the bronze medal at the V Biennial of Alexandria. It was shortly before he made the leap, from the Biosca gallery in Madrid, to the United States, the world centre of art at that time. Professor Emeritus of the Complutense University of Madrid and Full Member of the Royal Academy of Doctors, Úbeda continued to receive important awards throughout his long career, especially the Grand Prize for Painting of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in 1980. Likewise, in 1998 the Centro Cultural de la Villa in Madrid exhibited a retrospective that covered his work between 1944 and 1998. That same year Úbeda held an anthological exhibition at the Caja de San Fernando in Seville comprising thirty-five paintings devoted to three of his constant themes: landscape, the female nude and the still life. Úbeda has held solo exhibitions in various Spanish cities, as well as in France, Switzerland and the United States. He is currently represented in the Museums of the City of Geneva and Paris, the Fine Arts Museum of Jaén, the Contemporary Art Museum of Badajoz, the Modern Art Museum of Valdepeñas, the Engraving Museum of Marbella, the Municipal Museum of Toledo, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Camón Aznar Museum of Zaragoza, the Provincial Museum of Ciudad Real and, in the United States, the museums of New Mexico, San Diego, Phoenix, Lowe of Miami and Evansille of Indiana.

Lot 81

JUAN MANUEL DÍAZ CANEJA (Palencia, 1905 - Madrid, 1988)."El palomar".Oil on canvas.Work reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition J.D.CANEJA (1905-1988), Ed. Artes Graficas S.A, 1994, p.50.Signed in the lower right-hand corner. Signed, titled and located on the back.Measurements: 65 x 92,5 cm; 81 x 108,5 cm (frame).This work is reproduced in a photograph on page fifty of the J.D. Caneja catalogue. In this image, the author, Díaz Caneja, can be seen leaning out of the window of a gallery in Paris, inside which the presence of this particular piece can be appreciated.Famous landscape painter Díaz Caneja was able to create a completely personal space in his works, in which the fields played a major role. A classical theme treated from a contemporary perspective, with cubist overtones. This work in particular has similarities with the landscapes of 1958 and 1962, which belong to the collection of the Reina Sofia Museum and Art Centre.Juan Manuel Díaz Caneja was a Cubist painter, known and appreciated above all for his settings in the Castilian landscape. In 1923 he began his university studies in architecture in Madrid, and attended classes in the studio of Daniel Vázquez Díaz to prepare for the subject of drawing. He soon discovered his passion and left his studies to devote himself to painting. He took an active part in avant-garde cultural life, especially while living in the Residencia de Estudiantes in the capital. In 1927 he met the members of the Vallecas School, Benjamín Palencia and Alberto Sánchez Pérez, and saw and studied Cubism at first hand when he spent the winter of 1929 in Paris. In 1930 he settled in Zaragoza, where he shared a studio with Manuel Corrales and González Bernal. A year later, in Madrid, he published with Herrera Perete an anarchist, Dadaist and surrealist magazine called "En España ya todo está preparado para que se enamoren los sacerdotes" ("In Spain everything is ready for priests to fall in love"), and began his long list of exhibitions with his first solo exhibition three years later. After meeting his future partner Isabel Fernández Almansa, he joined the Communist Party of Spain, an affiliation he would maintain throughout his life, and joined the National Confederation of Labour, and served on the Republican side during the Civil War, after which he lived and worked in Madrid. In order to avoid censorship, his main theme was landscape, for which he became so well known. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1948 for his links with the Republicans, spending three years in prisons (Carabanchel and Ocaña), but never stopped painting.His work was, however, recognised with various awards (National Painting Prize in 1958; First Medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1962; Spanish National Plastic Arts Prize in 1980; Castilla y León Prize for the Arts in 1984) and with the creation in Palencia, in 1995, of a foundation named after him, which has its headquarters in the Museum of Contemporary Art of that city, His work has been exhibited in Madrid, Santander, Bilbao, Paris, Copenhagen, Zaragoza, Pamplona, León, Valladolid, Rome, etc., and is held in important private collections all over the world and in leading institutions (his aforementioned foundation, the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, etc.).

Lot 6

MANOLO VALDÉS BLASCO (Valencia, 1942)."La Reina Mariana como pretexto (Klee)", 1984.Etching, copy 68/75.Signed and justified in pencil.Size: 42 x 30 cm (footprint); 70 x 56.5 cm (paper).The endless iconographic possibilities offered by Diego Velázquez's canvases are demonstrated in the work in question, painted by Manolo Valdés in 1984. As its name suggests, in the series "Queen Mariana as a pretext" Valdés uses the famous painting "Queen Mariana of Austria" (painted by the Sevillian painter between 1652 and 1653) to adapt it to works by avant-garde artists: Miró, Malevich, Klee and Braque, among others, make this series a true declaration of intent by the Valencian artist, vindicating the role of the great traditional and modern painters in the evolution of the history of art.Manolo Valdés introduced in Spain a form of artistic expression that combines political and social commitment with humour and irony. He began his training in 1957, when he entered the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia. However, two years later he abandoned his studies to devote himself fully to painting. In 1964 he founded the artistic group Equipo Crónica, together with Juan Antonio Toledo and Rafael Solbes, in which he remained until the latter's death in 1981, despite the fact that Toledo had left the group two years after its foundation. Since then he has settled in New York, where he currently lives and where he has continued to experiment with new forms of expression, including sculpture. Among the numerous awards Manolo Valdés has won are the Lissone and Biella awards in Milan, the silver medal at the II International Biennial of Engravings in Tokyo, the Bridgestone Art Museum prize in Lisbon, the National Prize for Plastic Arts, the medal at the International Festival of Fine Arts in Paris, the International Festival of Fine Arts in Paris, the International Festival of Fine Arts in Paris, the International Festival of Fine Arts in Paris, the International Festival of Fine Arts in Paris and the International Festival of Sculpture in Paris, the medal of the International Festival of Plastic Artists of Baghdad, the Decoration of the Order of Andrés Bello in Venezuela, the prize of the National Council of Monaco, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, the Prize of the Spanish Association of Art Critics and the Prize for the Best Print Artist, among others. Formally, Valdés produces a large-format work in which the lights and colours express tactile values, due to the treatment given to the materials. His work forces the viewer to delve into memory and search for significant images from the history of art. He is represented in some of the world's leading museums, such as the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Metropolitan, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Fons National d'Arts Plastiques in Paris, the Kusnthalle in Hamburg, the Kunstmuseum in Berlin and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, among many others.

Lot 43

MIGUEL MORENO ROMERA (Granada, 1935)"Torso of a woman".Bronze and marble base. Exemplary IX/L.Signed and justifiedMeasurements: 34 x 10 x 9,5 cm.Miguel Moreno Romero was first trained by his father, the sculptor Miguel Moreno Grados, who has been an artistic reference throughout his career. After these first steps, he decided to enrol at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos in Granada, his native city, although he later continued his studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where he would later obtain his doctorate. At the age of nine he took part in his first exhibition, demonstrating great mastery, which gave him a reputation as a child prodigy. In 1955 he was awarded Spain's first prize for embossing and chiselling, an award which was followed by many others, such as, for example: First prize in sculpture, for a child's torso, in the competition-exhibition organised in 1952 by the Obra Sindical de Educación y Descanso for new artists; Gold Medal, in the IV National Sculpture Competition, organised by the City Council of Almería; I International prize in the Triennial of Sculpture in Budapest 1987 and the I National Goldsmith's Prize at the age of only nineteen. As is only fitting, he was also awarded the Gold Medal of the city of Granada. In the eighties he set up his art studio in his native city together with his children.

Lot 72

A Collection of Various Militaria to include 1939-1945 George VI Medal x2, Pips, Compasses Etc

Lot 268

GREAT WAR M.M. GROUP OF FIVE MEDALS awarded to 9911 Cpl T.A. Perfitt, George V Military Medal for bravery in the field, 9911 Cpl T.A.Perfitt 23/FD: Co: R.E., 1914 Star - 9911 2 Cpl T.A. Perfitt R.E., British War Medal, 9911 A-SJT, T.A.Perfitt R.E., Victory Medal with M.I.D. oak leaves, 9911 Cpl T.A.Perfitt M.M.R.E.

Lot 902

A Masonic case and contents, the brown leather case containing a medal, leather satchel and a booklet regarding 'The District Grand Lodge of the Punjab'

Lot 676

Three 20th century medals, comprising a Post President (Rotary International) medal, a silver jubilee medal and one other

Lot 645

Science and Art Department bronze medal, impressed HAROLD B KEATING STAGE 23C, 5mm, cased, an unusual early 20th c gold inlaid gunmetal (koftagari) sovereign case, decorated to both sides with ancient Egyptian scenes and a Victorian beam scale, with bright steel beam and brass pans (3) Good condition, sovereign case in particular the sovereign case

Lot 702

WWII, 1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star, Africa Star, Pacific Star and War Medal

Lot 707

WWI, pair, British War Medal and Victory Medal 59380 Pte P Swanson MGC and British War Medal L10447 Pte W J Prior R Suss R and 926354 Corporal C W Cooney RA Corporal Cecil Walter Cooney of "B" Bty 290th Brigade Royal Field Artillery died 24 April 1918 aged 20, Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux Private William James Prior, 7th Bn Royal Sussex Regiment died 7 July 1916, Thiepval Memorial

Lot 106

A collection of horse racing medals, including: an enamelled blue and white fob medal inscribed 'Newcastle 1976' with horse head motif; and others, mostly 1980s.

Lot 209

A small selection of medals and tokens. To include a pilgrimage medal dated 1934 from our lady of Lourdes Society, a Sunday School medal from 1901, and a Goole Co-op 1 pint milk token etc.

Lot 213

A selection of collectables. Sheffield Marathon 1990 medal, The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919 medal, vintage pen knife etc

Lot 189

Silver masonic medal & ribbon

Lot 190

Silver masonic medal & ribbon

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