| Jean-Michel Folon was a Belgian artist, illustrator, painter and
sculptor. Born in Uccle, near Brussels, the son of a paper
wholesaler, Folon
initially studied architecture, but by 1955 he had abandoned a country
he regarded as a "mental prison" and headed for Paris. He ended
up
living in a gardener's pavilion in Bougival, on the outskirts of the
capital, where he spent five years as a draughtsman. By the early
1960s, when he visited the United States, he was selling graphic (showing 500 of 6746 characters). |
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