"Peb at Keeneland" 1986 Bellocq, Pierre

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BELLOCQ, Pierre

[48] pp.

A. Horowitz & Sons/ Bookbinders

w/ acetate jacket

1986

10 3/8" x 15 3/8"

This copy … Read more BELLOCQ, Pierre

[48] pp.

A. Horowitz & Sons/ Bookbinders

w/ acetate jacket

1986

10 3/8" x 15 3/8"

This copy of Peb at Keeneland is one of a limited edition of six hundred of which one hundred specially bound (in genuine leather and record buckram naturally finished) copies have been numbered and signed. This is Artist Proof No. A to Henry Horowitz (the bookbinder), with my deep gratitude for a job well done.

Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb". As a small boy, his family moved to Maisons-Laffitte where his father worked at the local race track. There, at a young age Pierre Bellocq used his natural talent to begin creating caricatures of horses and horse people. At age 19, the French racing journal France Courses gave him national exposure when they published one of his cartoons of a jockey. Bellocq signed the drawing as "Peb", a signature which would become his lifelong moniker. Within a few years Peb was widely known and an emerging artist who also gained recognition for his caricatures on sports advertising posters. See less