For the first time in the gallery, we are delighted to present an exhibition-sale devoted to the work of Agnès Rosenstiehl. This unprecedented event brings together a rare selection of original drawings and offers an exceptional insight into a major artist of contemporary illustration.
Born in the pages of Pomme d’Api in 1976, Mimi Cracra has profoundly renewed the representation of childhood in children's literature. A little girl freed from conventions, curious and with an overflowing imagination, she explores everyday life with contagious joy. She is a character always in motion. A fluidity that highlights the graphic talent of Agnès Rosenstiehl: her clear line, which combines the precision of the ink stroke with a restricted range of colours executed in watercolour, and her sense of rhythm serve the expressiveness of the character. Each of these original drawings reveals the spontaneity, modernity and elegance of a visual universe that is immediately recognisable.
The exhibition brings together some sixty original drawings, constituting the first set of drawings by Agnès Rosenstiehl offered for sale in a gallery. The bulk of her work has indeed been donated to the BNF, which is also presenting an exhibition of it from 3 November 2026 to 24 January 2027, and to the IMEC. A unique opportunity, then, for lovers of Mimi Cracra as well as for collectors, to discover the work of an artist who mischievously likes to remind us: « Mimi Cracra, c’est moi ! »