GEORGES FOUILLÉ, Navy painter. (1909-1994): CAVALIER, OFFICER OF THE HORSE GRENADIERS OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD, FIRST EMPIRE, 20TH CENTURY. 14132
Signed Georges Fouillé (with the anchor of the marine painters) on the top of the base on the right.
No. 101
Height with base 24 cm.
France.
XX°.
In a perfect state.
BIOGRAPHY :
SEARCHED Georges, Jean, Clément. Born in 1909 in Paris, Died in 1994 in Leucate.
Appointed official naval painter in 1947.
Initially intended for the navy, his health forced him to give it up. Georges Fouillé then turned to maritime painting,
appointed titular painter of the navy, he embarked on the Richelieu in 1949.
Fouille wanted to combine art with historical research. Georges Fouillé brings a historian's precision to his work.
Fouille also made figurines of toy soldiers as well as dioramas and models
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