Lot n° 17
Estimation :
200 - 400
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 170EUR
Olympic Games/ Winter, 1940/ Norway/ Olympic Truce/ Symbol. - Lot 17
Olympic Games/ Winter, 1940/ Norway/ Olympic Truce/ Symbol.
Preparatory project for the 1940 games aluminum plaques.
Plaster
Dim.: 48 x 32 x 2.3 cm
The war put an end to all Olympic plans for Tokyo and Sapporo in 1940, and from then on the B plans abounded: St Moritz, Garmisch, Helsinki, and even, it seems, Norway... They all fell through, and this anonymous work in plaster is all the more touching for that: "Norge, 1940". War and peace seem to coexist here, and what if the omnipresent rings were a call for an Olympic truce? Some even saw in it a form of shield. And they were right, since this was the die for aluminum plaques designed to raise funds for the 1940 Games...
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