Gumpertz, Robert

Starting in the mid-1960s, Robert Gumpertz gained fame as a cartoonist when his work appeared in Playboy, Paris Match, The New York Times, Penthouse, London's Punch and the Sunday section of the San Francisco Chronicle. He lived and worked in Paris and New York; he now makes his home in northern California. While his commercial work as a cartoonist and illustrator was appearing worldwide, he started producing fine art drawings and small paintings. In the early 1990s he began painting full time, producing a body of work, mostly figures and faces, acrylic on canvas, and another group of painting...