Pépé VIGNES

So, ladies and gentlemen, my little children and the others, you see, we’re great drawers. For years we’ve been doing the job, so now we’ve started to make flowers, we’ve started to make boats, big boats, fish, then we started to make the weather, the time, then we started to make cellos, zithers, I made the avenue de la gare, I made the wall going to the church. We made trains with carriages, with signals, that’s what I did back then, and then I started making planes, aeroplanes (Pépé Vignes). Is the « job « mentioned by Pépé Vignes that of draughtsman? Or a cooper, which he practiced with his father? Or is he referring to his career as an accordionist and Saturday night ball singer? Pépé Vignes began drawing spontaneously, around the age of 40, covering exclusively the themes mentioned above. Extremely short-sighted, he drew with his face practically glued to the sheet of paper or cardboard.