The Museum of Miniature Found Objects has admired André François, the graphic artist, for many years. His simple style belies a great skill, the kind that comes through many thousands of days spent drawing and drawing. This image was one of a series of four he produced for Citroën in 1960. What was so novel about these images is that it was almost unheard of at the time to advertise cars without actually having a car in the advertisement.
He produced many lovely images over a long working life. At the age of 87, in 2002, fire destroyed his studio, along with all his original work not held in public or private collections. Despite experiencing one of the worst things that can happen to an artist, he began again, and within a short period of time produced two major Paris exhibitions — Ordeal by Fire at the Centre Pompidou and a retrospective of posters and book-jacket designs at the Bibliothéque Forney. He died in 2005.
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