GUY LAROCHE
ETOLE
CREPE MUSLIN 
MARINE 
WITHOUT CLAW, BOLDUC D'ATELIER HANDWRITT…
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GUY LAROCHE ETOLE CREPE MUSLIN MARINE WITHOUT CLAW, BOLDUC D'ATELIER HANDWRITTEN INSCRIPTION "78. G. LAROCHE". Provenance: Dreda Mele, grande dame of fashion who attended the meeting between Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy before accompanying

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GUY LAROCHE ETOLE CREPE MUSLIN MARINE WITHOUT CLAW, BOLDUC D'ATELIER HANDWRITTEN INSCRIPTION "78. G. LAROCHE". Provenance: Dreda Mele, grande dame of fashion who attended the meeting between Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy before accompanying

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Fritz Leopold Hennig, Bachlauf im Sommer Trees on the banks of a stream in a gently moving mountain landscape, impasto landscape painting, oil on card, around 1950, monogrammed "FLH" in ligature lower left, traces of studio on the reverse, indistinct annotations in lead and two artist's labels, each with artist's monogram and hand signature as well as different text "Sonderklasse - Alle Gemälde der Sonderklasse tragen dieses Qualitätszeichen mit meiner in Tinte vollgezogenen eigenhändigen Unterschrift: Prof. F. L. Hennig." and "Kunstwerkstatt Hennig - Motiv Prof. F. L. Hennig (copying without permission prohibited) ... due to the numerous imitations, all paintings that leave my art workshop bear my handwritten signature in ink on the reverse: "Prof. F. L. Hennig"", in need of cleaning, framed, folded dimensions approx. 60 x 80.5 cm. Artist information: German painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, draughtsman, novelist, playwright and operetta author (1895 Danzig to 1951 Dresden), participated in World War I as a naval pilot, survived several plane crashes, awarded the "Bene Merenti Medal" by Wilhelm Prince of Hohenzollern on 17 May 1918, ca. 1918-21 studied at the Dresden Academy, in the 1920s and 1930s in Sopot near Gdańsk [Engl.: Sopot near Gdańsk] as a painter, graphic artist and commercial artist, here parallel turn to writing, 1945 moved to Dresden and founder and director of the training workshops for art and applied arts in Dresden, appointed professor by the Soviet occupation authorities, 1949 dissolution of the training workshops, then freelance painter, graphic artist and writer in Dresden-Oberloschwitz, allegedly author of the operetta "Nun schlägt's 13", which premiered in Wurzen in 1948, member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts from 1940, member of the Goethe Society Weimar after 1945, source: Wikipedia.