ANDRE FRANCOIS

Andre Francois was a Hungarian-born (born in what is now Romania) French cartoonist from the 1930s to the 2000s. He worked as a painter, sculptor and graphic designer, but is best remembered for his cartoons, whose subtle humor and wide influence bear comparison to those of Saul Steinberg. Francois initially worked for French leftist newspapers (Le Nouvel Observateur) and illustrated books by authors such as Jacques Prevert, but gradually reached a larger audience, publishing in leading magazines of the United Kingdom (Punch) and the United States (The New Yorker). He passed away in 2005 at the age of 89.