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Ronald Searle
"All options that gave me a simple pencil exerted a fascination on me that soon turned to obsession."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Il affectionnait les chats et les escargots, qu'il croquait d'un trait élégant et caustique, au piquant jamais acerbe. Le dessinateur satirique britannique Ronald Searle est décédé le 30 décembre 2011 à l’âge de 91 ans dans un hôpital de Draguignan. Né à Cambridge, il résidait en France depuis 1961, notamment depuis 1975 et jusqu'à la fin de sa vie dans le village de Tourtour (Haut-Var) ; l'artiste est mort paisiblement dans son sommeil avec ses enfants et son petit-fils à ses côté. Son corps, selon sa volonté, sera incinéré. En son hommage, cette rose.
"Tout le monde avait un livre avec une première page blanche. On me donnait ces feuilles et je dessinais dessus. Cela me permettait de tout enregistrer et de me transformer en caméra." - Ronald Searle
"Son aptitude à dessiner dans une variété de styles lui a permis de maîtriser toutes les formes d'art graphique. " - Edward Sorel
"Toutes les possibilités que pouvaient me donner une simple plume, un simple crayon, exercèrent sur moi une sorte de fascination qui tourna vite à l'obsession. Personne ne s'intéressait particulièrement à mes dessins, personne ne semblait choqué par leur caractère spontanément grotesque. Tout cela paraissait bien naturel pour un garçon qui se servait de sa main gauche... " - Ronald Searle
"Ronald Searle est un fondateur, un bienfaiteur de l'imaginaire, un gaucher magnifique. " - Francis Marmande
"Si vous pouvez imaginer quelque chose qui pèse six pierres, qui est sur le point de mourir et qui n'a pas de qualités de révolte sur la condition humain, et qui dessine, calmement allongé là avec un crayon et un morceau de papier, vous avez une idée de la différence de tempérament que cet homme a eu de l'être humain ordinaire." - Russell Braddon
"Pour créer, il faut être isolé." - Ronald Searle
Notes of biography
Ronald Searle is born in Cambridge (England) in 1920 into a family of the working class. As a child, he feels ineluctably drawn towards caricature. He begins to draw regularly from the age. . . of five years old and publishes his first drawings in a local newspaper while he is barely fifteen (1935), showing an extraordinary talent. His first published drawings allow him to finance his studies at Cambridge School of Art and Technology. In 1939, he received his diploma in the drawing section.
Ronald Searle is mobilized in 1939 to serve in the Royal Territory Ingeneers during the Second World War. The "Lilliput Magazine" publishes one of his drawings whose legend is linked to the news: "Given the international situation, the game with St Trinian's has been postponed "; it is actually the first drawing of a long series that emerge after the war and make Ronald Searle famous. Sent to Singapore, the Japanese quickly takes prisoner Ronald Searle, he remains it for almost four years.
The young artist uses his captivity to tell by the drawing the extremely harsh conditions of prisoners, thus becoming the chronicler of this sordid daily. Three hundred original drawings from this period are now part of the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum (London). When in 1946, before his discharge, Searle resumes his series of St. Trinian's, he transposes the humane conditions of incarceration that he has considerably suffered in a girls' school where reign the torture and the arbitrary. Searle begins working in England for many magazines and newspapers.
The artist's career is marked by extraordinary diversity. In the form of reports, he draws, among other things, his adventures across America for the review "Holiday Magazine" and work regularly for many renowned European and American publications as "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", " Sunday Express", " Life" or" Le Monde". Searle also conducts animated films feature in Hollywood. Continuing his series of books "St Trinian's" and "Molesworth" (where he co-authored with Geoffrey Willians), he publishes several travel books with comedian Alex Atkinson, advertisements and posters.
In 1961, he moves to Paris, before, several years later, joining the region of Haute-Provence. In the 70s and in order to achieve a truly international audience, Ronald Searle leaves somewhat the caricature to devote himself to animals; he realizes at that time many lithographs, in particular in the workshop of Michel Cassé in Paris. The humor of the artist is often grating, willingly absurd and impertinent. The stroke, free and skilful, likes to point out some details, to linger, to embroider arabesques and expressive tangles.
Ronald Searle died in Draguignan (Var) on December 30, 2011.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
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To read about the artist :
- « Paris Sketchbook », R. S. et Kaye Webb, Ed. Perpetua Books, 1958
- « R. Searle », P. Soupault & autres, Cab. des estampes, Ed. Bib. Nationale, 1973
- « La famille Cassé », Ed. Michel Cassé, Paris, circa 1975
- « Ronald Searle », Ed. Mayflower, 1979
- « Ronald Searle », Dr A. Duckers, in revue Graphis n°212, 1980
- « 45 ans de dessins », Ed. Denoël, 1984
- « Ronald Searle : a biography », Russel Davies, Ed. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990
- « R. Searle dans le Monde », Ed. Le Cherche Midi, Paris, 2001
- « To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939-1945 », Souvenir Press/First Ed. Thus, 2006
- « Ronald Searle remembered », cat., Chris Beetles Gallery, Londres, 2012
To read from the artist :
- « Ah oui, je m’en souviens très bien. Paris 1961-1975 », Ed. Denoël, 1988
- « Ronald Searle », Russel Davies, documentaire, BBC, 2005
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Stamp by Ronald Searle
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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A tribute to Ronald Searle
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Il affectionnait les chats et les escargots, qu'il croquait d'un trait élégant et caustique, au piquant jamais acerbe. Le dessinateur satirique britannique Ronald Searle est décédé le 30 décembre 2011 à l’âge de 91 ans dans un hôpital de Draguignan. Né à Cambridge, il résidait en France depuis 1961, notamment depuis 1975 et jusqu'à la fin de sa vie dans le village de Tourtour (Haut-Var) ; l'artiste est mort paisiblement dans son sommeil avec ses enfants et son petit-fils à ses côté. Son corps, selon sa volonté, sera incinéré. En son hommage, cette rose.
"Tout le monde avait un livre avec une première page blanche. On me donnait ces feuilles et je dessinais dessus. Cela me permettait de tout enregistrer et de me transformer en caméra." - Ronald Searle
"Son aptitude à dessiner dans une variété de styles lui a permis de maîtriser toutes les formes d'art graphique. " - Edward Sorel
"Toutes les possibilités que pouvaient me donner une simple plume, un simple crayon, exercèrent sur moi une sorte de fascination qui tourna vite à l'obsession. Personne ne s'intéressait particulièrement à mes dessins, personne ne semblait choqué par leur caractère spontanément grotesque. Tout cela paraissait bien naturel pour un garçon qui se servait de sa main gauche... " - Ronald Searle
"Ronald Searle est un fondateur, un bienfaiteur de l'imaginaire, un gaucher magnifique. " - Francis Marmande
"Si vous pouvez imaginer quelque chose qui pèse six pierres, qui est sur le point de mourir et qui n'a pas de qualités de révolte sur la condition humain, et qui dessine, calmement allongé là avec un crayon et un morceau de papier, vous avez une idée de la différence de tempérament que cet homme a eu de l'être humain ordinaire." - Russell Braddon
"Pour créer, il faut être isolé." - Ronald Searle
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