French Illustrator Tomi Ungerer Recalls NYC 'Kidnapping' Attempt
At age 83, he's still full of crackling stories
Although the first U.S. exhibition of the work of French-born illustrator Tomi Ungerer (pictured) is set to run through the middle of March at New York’s The Drawing Center (35 Wooster Street), good luck trying to leave with a souvenir catalog. As the 83-year-old Ungerer this week told CBC Radio Q guest host Daniel Richler (via telephone from Cork, Ireland), the catalogs sold out within the first few days of the January 16 opening.
In honor of the exhibition, The Drawing Center partnered with online marketplace Artspace to create a limited, signed edition of a famous protest poster drawn by Ungerer in 1967.
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