Millôr

About this book

The catalogue brings together 500 original drawings by an artist difficult to classify. Comedian, author, playwright and journalist, Millôr Fernandes (b Brazil 1923 -2012) drawing become a reference for several generations in Brazil. The edition proposes an overview about his graphic work that, in fragmentary form, was and is still part of the everyday lives of the Brazilians. The edition comprises a careful selection of the vast graphic work of Millôr: his relentless criticism of self-portraits Brazilian life, human relationships, the pleasure of drawing and the vast and important production of "Pif-Paf" a section that remained in the magazine "O Cruzeiro" between 1945 and 1963. The collection of Millôr, which gathers more than 6000 cartoons and his personal files, is under the custody of the Instituto Moreira Salles from 2013.