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This medal has
been designed by Ronald Searle and minted in
This medaille has been designed by the outstanding English illustrator, painter and medalist Ronald SEARLE.
André François (9 November 1915 – 11 April 2005), born André Farkas, was a Hungarian-Jewish French cartoonist.
Ronald William Fordham Searle CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011)
was a British artist and satirical cartoonist.
He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration
with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth
series.
av. The portrait
of André François
rv. The symbolic scene
diameter
– 68 mm (2¾“)
weight
– 253.10 gr, (8.93 oz)
metal – bronze, mint patina, it comes with the original box
He was born to a Hungarian Jewish family in
Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Timişoara,
Romania), He
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest
(1932–33). He moved to
He worked as a painter, sculptor and graphic designer,
but is best remembered for his cartoons, whose subtle humor and wide influence
bear comparison to those of Saul
Steinberg. François initially worked for French leftist newspapers (Le Nouvel Observateur) and illustrated
books by authors such as Jacques
Prévert, but gradually reached a larger audience, publishing in leading
magazines of the United Kingdom (Punch)
and the United States (The New Yorker). He became a close friend and
collaborator of Ronald Searle. He was member of Alliance Graphique International.
He died in his home in Grisy-les-Plâtres, in the Val-d'Oise
département.
Ronald
William Fordham Searle
Searle received much recognition for his work, especially in
In 1961 he moved to
His work had a considerable influence on later
cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant, Matt
Groening, Hilary Knight and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. In 2005 he was
the subject of a long BBC
documentary on his life and work by Russell
Davies. In 2007 he was decorated with