It is a bit difficult to speak about one's father, but I will try, briefly. Papa's started drawing from an early age, probably influenced by his grand-father, André Deslignères (see wikipedia article , in French sorry!) and like him, has very much been a countryside painter, mostly of our village in Burgundy, Balleray (which is now in Google map, miracle!) but I don't really want to speak about his painting as I am more intrested in his drawings and engravings. As his name is also André Deslignères, he sometimes signs his work with "Deslignères jeune" (Deslignères the young) Papa, like many autodidacts I know who never made it to high-school, has read extensively, and you can find many references to world litterature, such as Don Quichotte de la Mancha, a book he's very fond of, or the Greek mythology,here it is the passage of the Styx, the river between life and death, with the "lovely" Charon in charge, described by Lucian (I think, though ...
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