Pierre Gandon was a French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps.
Gandon answered an advertisement in a paper and finally obtained the right to design "Femme indigène", his first postage stamp series issued 1941 in the French colony of Dahomey.
In 1941, during the Second World War, with Luigi Corbellini, Gérard Cochet, and others Gandon was one of the painters and sculptors who received the higher rate of 10,000 Francs from the City of Paris to compensate artists and intellectuals for loss of income.
In total, Pierre Gandon designed and/or engraved over 350 stamps for France [2] and over double that number for the French Colonies.
[citation needed] He designed the first stamps issued by the Central African Republic in December 1959.