Raymond Peynet

not to confuse it with the draftsman of cartoon, Frederic Peynet. ----

Raymond Peynet , often called by its only name, is a Illustrateur French, born with Paris the November 16th 1908 and dead the January 14th 1999 with Mougins. It is famous to have created in 1942 the two characters in love one whom it drew on many supports, of which postage stamps.

As of its exit of the school of the Applied arts in the Years 1920, it starts to work as an illustrator for the press and the catalogs of the department stores.

The “in love ones”, the poet and his partner, were created by Peynet in 1942, with Valence, inspire by a Kiosque with music known since under the name of kiosk Peynet . They inspired the song “in love ones with the public benches” of Georges Brassens. They were declined in stamps in 1985 in France, in Oblitération at the post office of St. Valentine's day in the Indre each February 14th, in postcards and Poupée S.

The French stamp of 1985, “the St. Valentine's day of Peynet”, is colors pastels. The pastoral scene represents a couple of in love close to a letter box in the shape with heart in which two angels post envelopes. In 2000, La Poste Frenchwoman took again these two characters for a stamp-homage to the illustrator deceased, this time the two characters close to a Kiosque with music.

In France, three museums are devoted to Peynet: With Valence, with Antibes and with Brassac-the-Mines, the town of birth of his/her mother. With the Japan, there exist also two museums dedicated to the work of Peynet, with Karuizawa and Sakuto. Raymond Peynet strongly marked the illustrators of the Années 1960 such as Alain Grée.

External bonds

Official site of Raymond Peynet
the kiosk of Peynet with Valence
Drawings of Peynet for a champagne mark

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