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3 charcoal drawings by Ferdinand Lop, dated 1948.
- Castle Ruins: Height 59.5 cm, width 50 cm.
- House with Fence and Trees: Height 54.5 cm, width 44.5 cm
- Tree Hut: Height 49.5 cm, width 40 cm.
Good condition.
Ferdinand LOP (1891–1974). Set of three charcoal sketches on Ingres paper depicting forest and urban scenes, signed in the lower left corner. Ferdinand LOP was a humorist known in the 1950s for his eccentricities. A prominent figure in the Latin Quarter, he was the originator of numerous hoaxes and whimsical proposals.
Ferdinand Lop, also known as Samuel Ferdinand-Lop, born on October 10, 1891, in Marseille and died on October 27, 1974, in Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent, France, was a journalist, cartoonist, English tutor, writer, poet, comedian, and French café philosopher, best known for his perpetual candidacy for the Académie Française and in presidential elections, as well as for his slogans: “All for the Lopular Front!” and “The chariot of the State needs a Lop’s wheel.”
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