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Edmundo Prati 1943 7th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition Uruguay boxed copper medal

This fabulous medal commemorates the 7th Uruguayan Annual Exhibition of the Fine Arts and was commissioned/issued by the Ministry of Public Education. The obverse depicts a naked man kneeling on a plinth sculpting a woman's head with a hammer & chisel. The word "Uruguay" is around the left hand side of the medal. It is signed rather indistinctly "E Prati". The reverse is stamped "Ministerio de Instruccion Publica Septimo Salon Annual de Artes Plasticas 1943 Somision Nacional de Bellas Artes" The reverse is signed "Tammaro", the minter. It is presented in a blue & gilt edged cardboard box. The underside of the top lid has an embossed label " Casa Tammaro Juncal 1429 Montevideo" The rim is not marked. A superb image!

Approximate dimensions:
Weight unboxed: 1 7/8ozs - 53gms
Weight boxed: 2.25ozs - 65gms
Diameter: 1.97ins - 5cms

Edmundo Prati
(1889 -1970)

Born in Parsandu Uruquay.
He moved with his parents when still a child to Italy & attended the School of Arts & crafts in Trento.
In 1907 he returned to Uruquay settling in Salto where he and his twin brother Eriberto took up decoartiev painting.
In 1920 he returned to Italy to study painting competing his studies in 1926.
He studied modelling & sculpture under Confalonieri, Danielli, Graziosi, Alberti and Willt.
He set up a sculpture studio in Milan and undertook the bronze statues and reliefs of the two inner doors of the Hall of Lost Steps of the Legislative Palace of Montevideo.
He returned to Uruguay in 1930 and was commissioned by the Salto Municipality to do the Equestrian monument to General Artigas.
1937 he won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the First Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts, held in Montevideo

He exhibited frequently and was commissioned to produce works (usually monuments) in Uruguay and abroad.
He won first & second prizes in the competition for the medal of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts; the competition for the monument to the "Founding Fathers"; first & second prizes in the competition for the monument to General San Martin.
He was founder and president of the Free Trade Union of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers; professor at the Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay; artistic chief curator of the Legislative Palace and founded the art magazine David.

Casa Tammaro
The Casa Tammaro was founded in 1888 by Italian born Luis Tammaro who emigrated to Uruguay in 1887. The company continues today to engrave & manufacture medals