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
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(now
Timișoara
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,
Romania
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), He studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
(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 newspapers (''
Le Nouvel Observateur'') and illustrated books by authors such as
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the Poetic realism, poetic ...
, but gradually reached a larger audience, publishing in leading magazines of the United Kingdom (''
Punch'') and the United States (''
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...
''). 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.
He died in his home in
Grisy-les-Plâtres, in the
Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.[< ...]
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
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
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''
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
20th-century French male artists
20th-century French painters
20th-century French sculptors
Artists from Timișoara
French editorial cartoonists
French male painters
French male sculptors
French satirists
Hungarian satirists
French humorists
Hungarian editorial cartoonists
Hungarian emigrants to France
Hungarian painters
Hungarian sculptors
Naturalized citizens of France
The New Yorker cartoonists
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