Ancient, British and World Coins, Historical Medals and Banknotes

France, 1899. France. ‘Salut au Soleil’, a fine bronze Art Nouveau plaque by G. Dupré, old man and child kneeling at sea-side, eyes towards the rising sun on the horizon, reverse birds above landscape, QUAND TOUT CHANGE, etc., 64 x 50mm (PBE 424; BDM I, 653; CGMP p.169). Softly worked, very fine and rare (£60-80)

This plaque was highly praised as a work of art by Forrer and other contemporaries