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Pépé (Joseph) Vignes

France • 1920

Biography

He is an accordionist in public balls, a singer and makes a living from various odd jobs. The young man decides to leave the metropolis following a strike in the factory where he is employed to settle in the small village of Elne, in the Pyrénées-Orientales.

He began to make in 1960, at the age of forty, drawings with a ballpoint pen, which he colored with a colored pencil and whose recurring themes are flowers, boats, cars, planes, trains. , churches, whales, fish, musical instruments, gas stoves and hearts. Suffering from strong myopia, he works with his nose almost glued to its support, which sometimes consists of sheets of paper, sometimes of pieces of cardboard or scraps of plywood. Every room in his house is full of drawings stacked on top of each other, which he keeps in plastic bags.

Said "Pépé Vignes"

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French