Pebble Lambert

See also: Lambert

Pierrette Lambert (born the June 10th 1928 with Orches) is a French artist. She is known to have drawn and have engraved banknotes and postage stamps.

Biography

Pierrette Lambert begins studies with the school of the Art schools of Poitiers in 1943. In February 1944, it attends the arrest of her father and his Jean brother, both resistant who die in deportation. It resumes studies with Paris, the applied art and Art school to the trade and industry, then with the École Estienne. She discovers there the Gravure via the art of the Miniature. Its works are exposed to the gallery Ror Volmar in 1957

An exposure of its miniatures to the gallery Ror Volmar point out it in 1957 by Guitard, a director of the Banque de France in load of the manufacture of banknotes. Employed by the French central bank, it draws inter alia the tickets with the effigies of Root (50 francs) and Louis Pasteur (5 francs). Thereafter, one owes him the ticket of 200 francs Montesquieu of 1981.

Its work on the tickets enables him to postulate with the realization of postage stamps. The two first are emitted in 1962 for Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon: they represent two flowers ( Calopogon pulchellus and stemless Cypipredium ). As of the following year, it draws two stamps for the Metropolitan France: “Castle of Amboise” engraved by Robert Cami and “Saint-Flour” engraved by Claude Durrens.

For its stamps, Pierrette Lambert received several rewards of which Grands Prix of philatelic Art for stamps of France, Monaco and three French-speaking countries of Africa. It received twice the price of the Philatelic Music Circle for the most beautiful musical stamp of the year with three stamps Monegasques: in 1987 for the stamp Jean-Sebastien Bach and Haendel, and in 1988 for the stamps “Bicentenary of the creation of Don Giovanni ” of Mozart and “150e birthday of the Great Mass for the dead the ” of Berlioz.

Its last stamp is emitted in France in 1997, that is to say in all approximately 1300 stamps. It takes its retirement because it is in dissension in the way in which the mentions of country, values, etc are page layouts around its creations or of its miniatures of works of Article It is devoted since to painting.

It takes part in the contest of the design of the tickets in Euro S, but in fact the projects of Robert Kalina are adopted.

See too

Sources

  • “Conversation with… Pebble Lambert. Its universe… its beauty”, discussion with Jean-François Decaux, published in Stamps magazine n°64, January 2006, pages 28-30.
  • “Say, the artist, draws to me the stamp of your dreams… ”, maintenance published in the Echo of the timbrology n°1805, March 2007, pages 12-13. The drawing proposed by the artist is titrated Flora : a female allegory is surrounded of thirty-and-a species of flowers that Pierrette Lambert drew on stamps.

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