FRANCE Jean Effel Cartoonist 1972 81mm Bronze Medal by  Marguerite Lavrillier-Cossaceanu

(the postage stamp does not come with the medal)


Edge: Cornucopia (privy mark Paris Mint) 1972 BRONZE

Jean Effel, real name François Lejeune (12 February 1908 – 10 October 1982), was a French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist. Mostly he considered himself to be a journalist and political commentator. His pseudonym is created by his initials F. L.

Effel was born in Paris and graduated in art, music and philosophy. Despite all efforts and wishes of his father to take over his merchant trade, Effel chose path of a professional artist. Often he drew for French newspaper l'Humanité and he is also author of illustrations of Jean de La Fontaine fables.

The cartoon cycle The Creation of the World is considered to be his greatest work (It was filmed in 1957 by director E. Hofman). The entire cycle includes five books: Le Ciel et la Terre (Sky and earth), Les Plantes et Animaux (Plants and animals), L'Homme (Man), La Femme (Woman) and Le Roman d'Adam et Eve (Story of Adam and Eve). Among his important works are also the collection of anti-fascist caricatures from 1935 and the book of cartoons When Animals Still Talked from 1953.

Effel's paintings are easily readable, fresh, humorous and novel, and carry his recognizable curly signature often with a little daisy in the lower right corner that shows the author's kind view of the world.

Jean Effel had close relation to the USSR and Czechoslovakia, and was the longstanding chairman of the Company of French-Czechoslovak Friendship. He received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967. He died in Paris in 1982.

Margaret Cossaceanu, born Margareta Cosăceanu, later Margaret Cossaceanu-Lavrillier (1893– 1980) was a French sculptor of Romanian origin.

Margaret Cossaceanu, was born in Bucharest and was the niece of scientist George Constantinescu, inventor of the Theory of sonics. She studied sculpture from 1910 to 1913 at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest under Dimitrie Paciurea.

In 1921, she obtained a scholarship enabling her to go to Rome to pursue her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, (at the same time, painter Lucian Grigorescu was studying there). It was during this stay in the Italian capital that she met French engraver-medalist André Lavrillier, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1914, and boarder at the Villa Medici. He took her to Paris, and introduced her to sculptor Antoine Bourdelle.

After being awarded the Grand Prize at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1922, Cossaceanu left Rome to settle in Paris, where she attended the workshop of her compatriot Constantin Brâncuşi while continuing her studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, in Antoine Bourdelle's studio, where she met Germaine Richier and Alberto Giacometti. Bourdelle took her as a collaborator in his workshop at impasse du Maine. He asked her to recreate in larger scale some of his works, as, for example, his Sapho; For these figurative works she used wax, earth, plaster, bronze or stone. She continued to work with him until his death in 1929. She participated in various Salons and exhibitions, such as the Salon d'Automne or the Salon des Tuileries[3] and produced pieces for the French state. She was commissioned to create a high relief for the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life (1937), for the Asian and Romanian pavilions. The high relief of the Daces (marble, 3m high) for which she received the diploma of honor is today in Bucharest.

Until 1977, at the request of the Monnaie de Paris, she made several medals (the medal of the deputies of the National Assembly (France) in 1968 - the portraits of Romain Gary, Anna de Noailles, Giacometti, the medal currently being offered of Jean Effell, among others). In 1952, Bernheim-Jeune Gallery organized a retrospective exhibition of her work, and the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris acquired The great torso of Woman.

In 1929, Cossaceanu married André Lavrillier, with whom she had three children, including photographer Carol-Marc Lavrillier. Margaret Cossaceanu died in Paris on September 22, 1980, at the age of 87.



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