Sempé's (1932-2022) favorite motto was: "Man is an inconsolable and cheerful animal."
Looking like nothing, drawing after drawing, he spent his life drawing an uncompromising portrait of our French society over seven decades. But beware: always with elegance, poetry and a graphic design that tended towards purity. This is precisely what strikes the amateur when he visits the exhibition, room 14, of twenty works of the father of Petit Nicolas, in Drouot, for the first sale organized since his death.
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"We were lucky to have been contacted recently by someone very close to him, in a direct line. Being part of the artist's family, this person was in possession of a magnificent collection, which he wanted to put up for sale, says Pauline Ribeyre, the auctioneer of the Baron Ribeyre firm. On these drawings and watercolors, we find his paw, his style, his humor. This collection brings together a fine sample of works published in major newspapers...
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