Feb 24, 2022 - Sale 2596

Sale 2596 - Lot 390

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

ARMAND RAPEÑO (1858-?)

LE SUSPENSION DES AUTOMOBILES / LÉON LAISNE. Circa 1920s.


29 1/2x45 1/2 inches, 75x115 1/2 cm. Yves Bourgeois, Nantes-Paris.
Condition B: minor creases and abrasions in margins and image; small replaced loss at bottom left edge; overpainting in text, central image, and along central vertical fold. Matted and framed.

Léon Laisne was a Nantes-based automobile manufacturer from 1913 to 1937. In 1926, an Englishman joined the company and his name was added to the firm's, which became Harris Léon Laisne. Pictured here is the company's Nouvelle 16-22 HP which was manufactured in the early 1920s.