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6 March 2024

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The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals (Part I)

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№ 156

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6 March 2024

Hammer Price:
£130

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

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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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’.