Par avion

First edition, first print run.
With a large original drawing, signed and dated: “for Annie Neuburger”.

We apologize for the imperfect translation generated by Deepl for the purposes of the show.

The album brings together a series of sketches captured during the author’s visit to New York; they were published in Télérama in the summer of 1989, just after the album’s publication. Sempé also enjoyed a cult following in the United States, where he held the record, for a working artist, for the number of covers – over a hundred – drawn for the New Yorker. These drawings were made during an extended stay in the autumn and spring of 1989. They retrace the wanderings of Jean-Claude Martineau, his French double, as he arrives in New York. Each drawing is accompanied by a caption or text on the subject of the American city and its inhabitants, and their strangeness and eccentricity in the eyes of the visitor.