Hemeret, Claude - born 1929 in Tunis; French painter and graphic artist (studied at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Nice; worked as a sought-after book illustrator for major French publishing houses before settling in the south of France as a freelance artist in 1966): "Dans le parc" (In the park), color lithograph on Arches, published by Jacques Boulan, 1985; numbered 97/175 in handwriting lower left; signed in handwriting lower right; approx. 55 x 75cm (mount cut-out); faded; frame behind glass (traces of age, unopened, approx. 78 x 96.5cm)

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