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Place of Birth: Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Ylipe
- Philippe Labarthe, pseudonym Ylipe (9 January 1936 – 8 March 2003) was a French humorist, artist, and writer.
- He was born in Bordeaux and studied Fine Arts there before moving to Paris to work as a cartoonist, painter and aphorist.
- He signed his cartoons flipe, using the Greek letter phi (f) in place of the first three letters of his forename.
- Maurice Nadeau misread the Greek f as a Latin y and the name Ylipe stuck.
- In the 1960s he contributed to Arts, L'Express, and Lettres nouvelles, and signed the Manifesto of the 121 opposing the use of torture during the Algerian War.
- He later exhibited paintings in New York and Paris under his own name, with backing from Eugène Ionesco and Jacques Prévert.
- In 2000, a back injury prevented him painting and he returned to writing aphorisms.
- His writing and painting often exhibit black humour; Dominique Noguez described him as a "sparkling misanthrope" (French: misanthrope Ă©tincelant).
- He died of lung cancer, having refused medical treatment.
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