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[Simone Hérault collection of Chez Simone cartoon sketches].
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Title:
[Simone Hérault collection of Chez Simone cartoon sketches]Creator/Contributor:
Grant, Lou, creator, artist.Abstract:
Five ink drawings on napkin paper, each depicting a similar character making reference to Oakland, Calif. restaurant Chez
Simone and perhaps to another restaurant, La Ruche.
Date:
1980 (issued)Subject:
Caricatures and cartoons -- SpecimensCaricatures et dessins humoristiques -- Spécimens
Caricatures and cartoons
Chez Simone (Oakland, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Attributed by donor to Oakland Tribune cartoonist Lou Grant. However, artist's signature on each drawing ("Don"?) does not
seem to match that found on Grant's published works.
Collected by Simone Hérault.
3 drawings (:1-:3) are adhered to a single mount.
Gift of Simone Hérault ; 2022.
Simone Hérault: chef and restaurateur; born 1936; died 2022; owner of French restaurant Chez Simone on Piedmont Avenue in
Oakland, Calif.
Grant, a native of Los Angeles, began his newspaper career at 17 working for the Los Angeles Examiner. He also worked as a
cartoonist during his Army duty, and later for the Milwaukee Sentinel and San Francisco Call-Bulletin. He worked as an editorial
cartoonist for the Oakland Tribune from 1954 to 1986. He won many awards during his career and was honored with a 25-year
retrospective by the Oakland Museum in 1980. The television series and character "Lou Grant" was allegedly modeled on the
cartoonist, who also worked in radio and television. Lou Grant died in 2001 at age 81.
Simone Hérault collection of Chez Simone cartoon sketches, BANC PIC 2022.088, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphicdrawings (visual works)
Drawings
Pictorial works
Specimens
Drawings.
Dessins.
Physical Description:
drawing
5 drawings in 2 folders and 1 oversize folder : ink on napkin paper, mounted ; folded sheets 28 x 22 cm or smaller, mounts
56 x 77 cm and 36 x 28 cm
Language:
English