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Gustave Kahn

Metz 1859 - Paris 1936
French symbolist poet and art critic
(Wikipedia)

Anna Bass
Alexis Rudier Fondeur (Paris)
1939?

Description

Bronze bust on a stone pedestal with two reliefs on the sides, showing left a winged woman with a laurel wreath and a book and right a young woman playing a lyra.

Metz - Gustave Kahn

Inscription(s)

Gustave Kahn
1859 1936

Les Palais Nomades
Le Livre d’Images
Le Conte de l’Or
et du Silence
Le Cirque Solaire
La Childebert
Terre d’Israel
Vieil Orient,
Orient Neuf

La Poesie est la vraie verite

G.K.

Signature

anna bass

Sculptor

Anna Bass (Strasbourg 1876 - Paris 1961), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

e-Monumen.net, Monumen.
Petit Patrimoine, search form.
Philippe Hoch, Gustave Kahn et Paul Verlaine, histoire d'une fidélité, Académie nationale de Metz 1996 (PDF on-line).

Locatie (N 49°7'24" - E 6°10'48") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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