André François (9 November 1915 – 11 April 2005), born André Farkas, was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist.
Life
He was born in Temesvár,
Austria-Hungary (now
Timișoara,
Romania), He studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in
Budapest (1932–33). He moved to Paris in 1934 and entered to the atelier of the famous poster artist Adolphe
Cassandre (1935–36). He became a French citizen in 1939.
He worked as a painter, sculptor and graphic designer, but is best remembered for his cartoons, whose subtle humor and wide influence bear comparison to those of
Saul Steinberg. François initially worked for French
leftist
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newspapers (''
Le Nouvel Observateur'') and illustrated books by authors such as
Jacques Prévert, but gradually reached a larger audience, publishing in leading magazines of the United Kingdom (''
Punch'') and the United States (''
The New Yorker''). He also did a masterpiece cover illustration of the 1965 UK Penguin paperback edition of
Lord of the Flies. He became a close friend and collaborator of
Ronald Searle. He was member of
Alliance Graphique Internationale
Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) is a club of the world's leading graphic artists and designers. There are 527 members from 43 countries. Its members have been collectively responsible for the identity design of most of the world's top co ...
.
He died in his home in
Grisy-les-Plâtres
Grisy-les-Plâtres () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. The commune has a resident population of 694 (2019). , in the
Val-d'Oise département.
Publications
* ''Les Larmes de Crocodile = Crocodile Tears.''
* ''Neuf'' No. 9. Paris: Maison de la Médecine, 1953. .
* ''The Tattooed Sailor.'' (Introduction by
Walt Kelly.) New York: Alfred Knopf. 1953.
* Paris:
Delpire, 1955. .
* ''Crocodile Tears.'' London:
Faber and Faber
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, 1955. . Translated by E.M. Hatt.
*''Double Bedside Book''
Exhibition
*2009:
Rencontres d'Arles festival
See also
*
Musée Tomi Ungerer/Centre international de l'illustration
Musée Tomi Ungerer/Centre international de l’illustration is a museum in Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department of France. Opened in November 2007, it is dedicated to the work of Strasbourg-born artist Tomi Ungerer and displays 11,000 graphic wo ...
References
*Anne-Claude Lelieur et Raymond Bachollet, ''André François'', Bibliothèque Forney, 2003,
Shahn, Ben, "The Gallic Laughter of Andre Francois," Horizon, May 1959, Volume I, Number 5, pp 108–121, (American Horizon, Inc., a subsidiary of American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.)
External links
Obituaryin ''
The Times''
André François at PbaseAndré François at AskArt
André François's 2004 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou
"Timişoreanul André François, un caricaturist celebru"
in '' Evenimentul Zilei''
Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work
1915 births
2005 deaths
Artists from Timișoara
Hungarian emigrants to France
French cartoonists
Hungarian cartoonists
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
French male painters
Hungarian painters
Hungarian sculptors
20th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
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