Lot n° 151
Estimation :
200 - 300
EUR
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Result
: 780EUR
BASILE LEMEUNIER (FRANCE/ 1852 - 1922) - Lot 151
BASILE LEMEUNIER (FRANCE/ 1852 - 1922)
Portrait of Louis or Arthur Folloppe
Oil on canvas
Dedicated, signed and dated lower right: "A mon cher Ami Folloppe / son bien dévoué B. LEMEUNIER 1892".
29 x 23 cm
Louis Folloppe was the printer of the first newspaper in Flers en Normandie, published in 1856. Arthur, his son, was a partner in the newspaper's management. But he died suddenly at the age of 45, from a fatal 80 m fall during a country walk with friends near La Roche d'Oëtre. La Journal de Flers disappeared during the Second World War.
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