PECNARD Jacques

Jacques PECNARD (born September 1922 in Vincennes) is a French painter, engraver, sculptor and illustrator. He began his career as an illustrator in 1940, and continued for nearly twenty-five years. He is one of the illustrators of the series Les Amours Famous of the daily France-Soir, and collaborates for the magazines Elle and Fémina. It depicts a large number of books for Parisian publishers, such as Hachette, Flammarion, the Red and Gold Collection, Éditions Larousse and others. He also works in the area of advertising where his participation was constant. In 1971, he won the Press Illustrators Award. By the 1970s, he turned to painting, producing illustrations in dry-point engraving, aquatint or lithography. The publishers of books of bibliophilia commissioned him many books. He died on 16 June 2012 in Montmorency.