France. INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG BLIND PEOPLE. By Hippolyte Lefebvre. Bronze plaquette 81mm x 69mm. $150. Sorry, SOLD (July, 2023).

Hippolyte Lef?bvre, sculptor and medallist, was born in Lille. He studied at the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts in Lille, where he won first prizes in drawing and sculpture. He later entered the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he won numerous prizes. He exhibited at the Salon and won the Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture in 1892. Lef?bvre won gold medals for medals that he exhibited at the 1900 Universal Exposition.