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France, 1912. France. La Danse, a bronze award medal by H. Dropsy, young female dancer, reverse Pan seated on ram, playing flute, un-named, 50mm (cf. BDW 5, 73; DW 24, 442); 1926, Championnat de Danse de Paris, plated bronze award medal, named (S. Mudry, 2e Prix, Champion de One Step du XIII Arrt.), 39mm; 1950, Manuel de Falla, a cast bronze medal by Anna Bass, bust of de Falla left, reverse the ‘Danse du Feu’, female dancer and naked male sorcerer, 68mm (CGMP p.102; Niggl 622) [3]. First two very fine, last extremely fine (£40-60)

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish composer, a native of Andalusia who lived mostly in Granada. One of his most successful ballets, El Amor Brujo [Love, the Sorcerer], composed in 1915 and based on the legends of the gypsies of Granada, included a piece known as the Ritual Fire Dance, the subject of the reverse of the third piece in this lot. De Falla fled to Argentina at the outbreak of World War II, where he died in 1946