The private collection of designer F'Murrr enters the national collections

On April 10, 2018, the designer F'Murrr, whose real name is Richard Peyzaret, known in particular for his series

died at the age of 72.

It leaves an invaluable heritage which will continue to transport many generations of readers in a poetic and quirky universe.

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The excessively high costs of this succession and the concern to preserve the work of this pillar of

encouraged his two heiress sisters to apply for the State, tells

. Plates, album covers, illustrations, preparatory sketches… The designer has kept more than a thousand drawings and illustrations in his Parisian apartment. The boards are estimated between 1000 and 2000 euros on the market.

, specifies

Alexis Fournol, lawyer specializing in the art world.

The idea of ​​a donation to the State is essential, making it possible to settle a tax debt by ceding to the State works considered worthy of entering the circle of national collections.

It's a first.

The comic strip had never before been the subject of such an initiative.

The heiresses thus proposed to bequeath 238 originals and other documents to the State, for a price estimated at 228,000 euros by Eric Dumeyniou, judicial auctioneer at the auction house Aponem.

The donation was accepted by the State in February 2020, and today the mystery remains on the public institution that will be responsible for preserving them.

Legitimation

If the beneficiaries have expressed the wish that his works be shared between the International City of Comics and Images (CIBDI) of Angoulême, for the boards, and the Tomi-Ungerer Museum of Strasbourg, for the illustrations and cartoons, these two institutions are not public. This would explain a certain slowness in the progress of the file. According to

, the Ministry of Culture could develop a hybrid montage where a public establishment would have the assignment of the originals of F'Murrr, which would be deposited at the Cité d'Angoulême and at the Ungerer Museum in Strasbourg.

The acceptance of the joint legacy by the Ministry of Culture and that of the Economy and Finance, (which validated the amount) is worth its weight in gold in the landerneau of comics. It ensures the ninth art a new step in its legitimation. By joining his friends from the band at

between Gotlib, Guy Vidal or René Goscinny, F'Murrr and his quirky humor have won the prestigious sphere of national collections.