'French Committee of Exhibitions', medal

'French Committee of Exhibitions'
Medal (obverse view)
Pierre Turin (1891-1968)
France (Paris)
About 1930-5
Bronze, struck
Museum no. A.25-1980
Given by Professor and Mrs J. Hull Grundy

In this powerful design Turin's imagery combines the god Mercury, perhaps as an allegory of eloquence and reason, and a cogged wheel representing the modern machine age.

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