Untitled - Pépé Vignes

Drawing with markers and colored pencils on paper, Shipment protected with insurance, Certificate of authenticity provided by the gallery, Pépé vignes was born on november 20, 1920 in paris and died in january 2007 in elne. Pépé vignes has lived since his early childhood in a village in the pyrénées-orientales. He rolled his bump all over the place. Accordionist in public balls, singer too, cooper then like his father. In 1960, at the age of forty, he began to draw, for fun, with ballpoint pens and colored pencils. His favorite themes are flowers, boats, fish, cars, planes, trains, rugby balls and hearts that are found in almost all his drawings. As he is suffering from a strong myopia, he draws the face very close to the leaf. He also uses cardboard, kraft paper that he soon decorates with felts so as not to waste time carving the mines of pencils. "25 years ago, pépé vignes began to pencil, to color "for laughs". He painted vases of flowers first, drawings with ballpoint pen and colored with colored pencils, boats then, fish (whales), cars, cithares, churches, all this by the hundreds, buses, jeeps, planes, a dozen themes. All this is carefully stored in plastic bags. The whole, the huge series upsets me. Pépé vignes is the most authentic, wonderful artist I have ever met. » Claude masse. "i'm going to show you my work, my talent from my work that happened. I did this for the whole country, to open the eyes of people who didn't know what a cartoonist was. Point on the line. » Pépé vignes.

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