![]() This is the kind of unlikely marriage that crops up again and again in the works on display in Tomi Ungerer: All in One, an eclectic retrospective currently on view at The Drawing Center.īorn in 1931 in Alsace, France, Ungerer became something of a personality in his adoptive city of New York, where he hobnobbed with the likes of Stanley Kubrick and painted the bricks of his Greenwich Village house pink. A cartoonist, political satirist, and illustrator of both children’s books and sadomasochistic erotica, he has designed a cat-shaped kindergarten for a German school and condoms for a French safe-sex campaign. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Untitled” (1966) drawing for ‘The Party,’ first pub.1966 by Paragraphic Books, Grossman Publishers, New York, ink and ink wash on paper (all images courtesy The Drawing Center)įrench illustrator Tomi Ungerer has worn many hats, none of them obviously compatible with any of the others. ![]()
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