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Sempé, Busted!

Sempé, Busted!

Ur-Sempé. 30 Juin.

If you look at New Yorker covers regularly, then you know that the retro ones that continue to appear, those featuring landscape-style scenes of New York in the seasons--utterly news-less and simply natural--are usually by JJ Sempé.

Well have a look at this then!! I make no claims of authorial orginality here, but in the wake of Doris Kearns Goodwin and all that, I expect that JJ will respond formally.

(If you can't see it, it's a huge white snowfield with a tiny cartoony skier sliding across it, on a 50-year-old canvas hanging in a museum. My picture of the painter's name was blurry, but who cares about that anyway.)

Posted by amol at July 2, 2002 10:30 AM