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Bronze paperweight decorated with fantastic animals.
It bears the inscription: En un rêve de pierre s'épanouit le bestiaire roman. Bronze signed Jacques Birr. Bronze hallmark 1974 EE/125. Good condition, with medal patina.
Height 4.5 cm, length 11 cm, width 11 cm, weight 3.063 kg.
- Jacques Birr (1920 - 2012) is a contemporary animal painter, an artist "above all an animal portraitist". He is not only a painter and lithographer, but also a sculptor and draughtsman. The Monnaie de Paris devoted a major retrospective to him in 1997, entitled "L'œil et la vie" ("The Eye and Life").
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