Studio Peyo/Eric Closter/Pair of original drawings illustrating a self-portrait. Graphite, colored pencil and felt pen 1980. Rare. TBE+ Format A4 Provenance: Entourage of the artist. Eric Closter studied Fine Arts at Châtelet and started his career at Studio Peyo in the 1980s and 1990s. He drew the 'Smurfs' and was responsible for some of the stories in Peyo's classic story 'Pierrot et la Lampe' in 1991. He also drew new gags of 'Poussy' for the Smurf magazine in 1990. Closters also drew Benoît brisefer and the children's comic 'Laser et Pepin - L'Étrange petit Laser' for Soleil in 1990. Then Casimir, Erik le chétif, 3 enfants débrouillards and Clairon l'éléphant. He also worked on 2 albums of Marsupilami. His grandfather was the comic artist Jean Closter.

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