Graphite And Colored Pencil On Paper Original Illustration For Book — Madame Gore; Signed And Dated; Framed, Framed, La Vie N'a Pas Toujours Ete Rose Pour Moi, France, 2001
Gerard Mordillat, French novelist, filmmaker and television director was born in 1949. Known for his Marquise (1997), En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (1993) and Vive la sociale! (1983), he is also a member of the select club des Papous dans lat tete de France-Culture. In his 2001 collaboration with American-born artist Bob Meyer, Mordillat published Madame Gore, a humorous and irreverent take on the despairs and misadventures of ''a woman of a certain age.''