When planning what to do while we were in Paris I was so happy to stumble across the Sempé exhibition at Hotel de Ville (an amazing building in itself, we were happy to queue gazing up at it in the sunshine!).
The exhibition; "Sempé, A Bit of Paris... and elsewhere" displayed over 300 original drawings along with with texts by the cartoonist/illustrator, Jean-Jacques Sempé and included original artworks alongside New Yorker covers dating from the late 70's to the present.
I found the following quote about Sempés work and just feel it sums it up exactly:
"Sempés illustrations are full of life. The good, the bad, the ugly, the sad, and most of all, the funny; they all exist in his whimsical drawings. There is always something that makes you smile or laugh out loud. Everything in his drawings have expressions; the people, the animals, the plants, even the inanimate objects seem to portray emotion in their whole being". Suzy Chung
Wonderful work, wonderful exhibition!
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