Floc'h - Lot 163

Floc'h JEAN-CLAUDE FLOC'H ALBANY AND STURGESS Intégrale - A singular friendship, Dargaud 2020 Original illustration. Signed. India ink on paper 50.2 × 38 cm (19.76 × 14.96 in.) With its first title, Le Rendezvous de Sevenoaks, Floc'h and Rivière's Albany et Sturgess series is a manifesto tribute to Jacobs's clear-cut realism, as well as to the whodunit genre of Agatha Christie detective fiction. The result is an elegance tinged with nostalgia, as much in the stories as in the drawings. This illustration shows Floc'h's sense of composition. In this simple scene of silence that intersperses the conversation of a couple strolling along a boom, the author manages to instill emotion in the correspondence between the rigid structure of the construction and the fluidity of the waves. Great Floc'h.