Professionally linen-backed and ready to frame
but the god-like images of him produced in the 1960s are unparalleled
following in the footsteps of his mentor
named after the old Cologny patrician family of Overstolzes
This poster's message along the left margin translates to: "Do not fight to fight" while the white characters against the red background read: "Hold high the great red flag of Mao Zedong's thought and completely destroy the bourgeois government
1983 Original Jean Michel Folon French Poster, Festibelfilm sketches Professionally linen-backed and ready toDate: 1983 Size: 11. 75 x 16 inches Artist: Jean Michel Folon When Folon died in 2005, the Guardian wrote: "Born in Uccle, near Brussels, the son of a paper wholesaler, Folon initially studied architecture, but by 1955 he had abandoned a country he regarded as a "mental prison" and headed for Paris. He ended up living in a gardener's pavilion in Bougival, on the outskirts of the capital, where he spent five years as a draughtsman. By the early 1960s,