Exhibition guide

The originals by Joëlle Jolivet created for the large format album "Costumes" published by Les grandes gens and other plates taken from "Costumes à colorier" by the same publisher.

Visit details

  • Dates: From Tuesday May 12, 2026 to Saturday June 27, 2026:
  • Venue: Bibliothèque André Malraux, 112 rue de Rennes, Paris
  • Price: free
  • Audience: Public enfants, jeunes et adultes. A partir de 3 ans.
  • Source: Event page

About the exhibition

sport, work, comb your hair or put on your shoes... We will also discover the

This led her to linoleum engraving, which became her main means of expression. She doesn't hide from us that the linoleum sticks to her

Paris to color, ed. underneath a princess, a samurai, an Inuit...

Joëlle Jolivet is internationally recognized for her numerous children's books and her

Joëlle Jolivet is recognized for her stylized linocuts combining documentary precision and humor. Miss Cat 4 the cat

skin, like a label that she finds so difficult to get rid of, for the pleasure of

Invitation to immerse yourself in the large linocut plates around clothing and costume and to travel the surface of the globe as well as the centuries. The Great People

. eyes.

Joëlle Jolivet is a French illustrator born in 1965; collaborations with the press. She has published more than fifty albums translated around the world. rebooted, text by Jean-Luc Fromental, ed. These images speak to us about what clothing says about our belongings, our cultures, our taste for what constitutes ornament.

These plates, first printed in black and white, were then colored with gouache. she has always drawn, then painted and engraved. She is as interested in images as in

His work combines abundant imagery, documentaries and children's stories, often award-winning.

To read :

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This exhibition is part of a set of exhibitions which also includes the presentation of reproductions of plates from “Armand and the stories of clothes” by Esmé Planchon, illustrated by Héloïse Solt (Glénat jeunesse) and “La Princesse coquette” by Christine Naumann-Villemin illustrated by Marianne Barcilon (Kaleidoscope) - from May 13 to August 1 on the 3rd floor. Engraving plates will allow us to follow the process.

The author and engraver thus offers us a history of costume throughout the world and times by showing us what we were able to invent to dress, adorn ourselves, practice

After studying graphic design at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art Olivier de Serres in Paris, she became interested in lithography and took courses at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. typography. .

Exhibition - The clothes of Armand and Princess - City of Paris