GEORGES FOUILLÉ, Navy painter. (1909-1994): PEDESTRIAN, OFFICER OF THE 7TH HUSSARD REGIMENT 1814, First Empire. 211A-28020JC
Signed Georges Fouillé (with the anchor of the marine painters) on the top of the base.
No. 211A lead figurine.
Height with base 21 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.
Mr. Fouillé also made figurines of toy soldiers as well as dioramas and models.
Reference :
217-28020JC