A Collection of Art Medals formed by Christian Christensen

France, Death of André Gide, 1951, a bronze medal by Annette Landry, bust right in high relief, reverse naked man liberated from chains, open book and stars in background, citation from Gide around, 68mm (CGMP p.1140). As struck, rare (£30-40)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Art Medals formed by Christian Christensen.

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André Gide (1869-1951), one of the major French literary figures of the first half of the 20th century, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947. Gide was a homosexual: the reverse of the medal alludes to his discovering, during a trip to North Africa in the 1890s, that local society there viewed homosexuality without a sense of shame