Lot 91 - Argentina. Argentine Rural Society Silvered Æ Award Medal. 1910.

Argentina. Argentine Rural Society Silvered Æ Award Medal. 1910. SOCIEDAD RURAL ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES, CULTIVAR EL SUELO ES SERVIR LA PATRIA, Farm scene centre with workers and animals / EXPOSICION INTERNACAE DE AGRICULTURA date, CENTENARIO MAYO 1810, cattle wearing yolk with trailer of haying farm implements. Edge marked BRONZE, silvering intact.Matte surfaces. By Pierre Lenoir. 42.40g, 48.00mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. Very scarce. Pierre Lenoir was a French sculptor and medallist and was one of the Breton sculptors born in the 1880s who studied together at the École régionale des Beaux-Arts in Rennes; Jean Boucher, Louis-Henri Nicot, Armel-Beaufils, Paul Le Goff, Eloi Robert, Albert Bourget and Francis Renaud. He was the son of the sculptor Charles Joseph Lenoir. He married the painter Mathilde Berthe Thorel who also used the name Mathilde Lenoir. He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Rennes and the École des beaux-arts de Paris. He became the director of the École des beaux-arts de Rennes and in 1931 he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. He died on 9 September 1953 and is buried in the Thorel family grave in the Père-Lachaise cemetery. A plaque marks his residence between 1914 and 1953 at 12 rue d'Auteuil in Paris. Lenoir created many medals and plaquettes.