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Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022) is the subject of a major exhibition in Belgium at the Folon Foundation in collaboration with the Martine Gossieaux gallery (Paris).
Sempé started sketching when he was twelve years old in Bordeaux. This shy heckler from a modest family is as passionate about music as he is about drawing.
In 1951, he was published for the first time in «Sud-Ouest» and he decided to try his luck in Paris. It was in the Belgian weekly «Moustique» that his Petit Nicolas appeared for the first time in 1954.
He then collaborated with «Paris Match», «L’Express» and «Punch» in the United Kingdom. His international career was launched in the 1960s.
He produced 112 covers for «The New Yorker» from 1978 to 2018.
Original drawing for the cover of The New Yorker, July 1999 © © J.J. Sempé.
