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| The gallery in Paris as seen by Avril. | ||
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The gallery Martine Gossieaux regularly shows internationally acclaimed graphic artists including Sempé, Steig, Chaval, André François. Jacques Rouxel, Benoît and Pierre Le Tan. Many of these artists currently collaborate with literary magazines, in particular the New Yorker. The gallery also features the celebrated billboard artist Savignac as well as the work of young artists such as Avril, Chloé Poizat, Emmanuel Pierre, Gottïng, Denis Polge ... |
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Founded in 1992, the mission of the gallery Martine Gossieaux has always been to showcase those graphic artists who with elegance, humor, sympathy and irony, depict the lighter side of human nature. |
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In addition to its exhibitions, the gallery publishes books in limited editions as well as engravings and etchings. The books, printed on Rivoli paper, include collections of unpublished drawings by JJ Sempe (in editions ranging from 500 to 900 numbered copies), as well as drawings by William Steig, Ronald Searle and Tetsu. Madame Gossieaux has also edited a text entitled Portraits de mes amis by Philippe Caubet with original drawings by Sempé for Diogenes. Her book, La passion du dessin d'humour, was edited by Buchet-Chastel, as part of its collection « les Cahiers dessinés » in 2008. It showcases artists she admires -- Birnbaum, Chas Addams, Peter Arno, and Savignac, among others,-- and is accompaned by vivid accounts of how she came to know them. |
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The gallery Martine Gossieaux regularly organizes expositions in Europe and elsewhere in the world, including a major show of 120 originals drawings taken from his first book « Nothing is simple » to his latest book. The show has toured the cities of Cognac, Bordeaux, Beijing, Hong-Kong, à Saint-Malo, Bâle, Taïwan, Madrid, Morges and recently at the Paris town hall where it brought around 200 000 visitors. |