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The Michael Hall Collection

A Sensational Auction of Renaissance Medals

A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd are delighted to announce that they have been chosen to auction the extensive collection of Renaissance and later medals formed by the New York connoisseur and fine art collector, Michael Hall. The Michael Hall Collection comprises in excess of 2000 items, making it by far the largest sale of this type since the Max and Maurice Rosenheim (Sotheby 1923) and Henry Oppenheimer (Christie’s 1936) sales.

Following the successful sale of the first part of the collection in May this year subsequent auctions have been scheduled for the 29th June and 28th September.

Catalogues for the 29th June auction are available for £10.  Please click here to order your copy of the auction catalogue online

For more information or to register your interest in the auction please contact Graham Byfield on +44 (0)207 930 6879 or at graham@baldwin.co.uk

A number of the medals from the collection were selected by the art historian Stephen K. Scher for the 1994/5 touring exhibition, The Currency of Fame.

The book accompanying the touring exhibition, also titled ‘The Currency of Fame’ is available for purchase online through Baldwin’s numismatic book department.

It is impossible to conceive of the development of Renaissance art and culture without reference to the portrait medal. Now this great tradition is at last given its full due, in a thoroughgoing authoritative presentation graced by reproductions of the highest quality. This unparalleled study, the first book ever published on the great formative period of the portrait medal, accompanied the prestigious exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Frick Collection, New York, and the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

It combines the expertise of thirty-one specialists with examples drawn from the finest collections in the world, both public and private. Over 170 magnificent specimens, dating from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, are discussed and illustrated, assembling the most striking Renaissance portraits ever carved or cast in wax, stone, wood, bronze, lead, silver or gold, often in combination with delightful allegories and scenes, or commemorations of important events.

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