A plank original of The shooting Star of Hergé, creator of Tintin, will auction on Saturday in Paris at Artcurial during an auction dedicated to comics. Estimated to be between 170,000 and 200,000 euros, the coin shows Tintin and Haddock on board the Aurora, the ship that sails on the ocean to the mysterious Star.
It is time to move on to the table. The menu is extensive, as the chef offers a sauerkraut (without the sausages stolen by Milou!). A storm comes up. The scholars invited to the captain’s table do not feel in their plate. In the last box, there no longer remains at the table as Tintin and Haddock, who says philosophically: «In a few days, they will be used…».
This board for so-called «security» of The mysterious Star is estimated to be between 170,000 and 200,000 euros. HERGE The shooting Star © Artcurial
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The board has been carried out with China ink on paper. It was made by Hergé at the time of the transition to the color and the overhaul in the 62 pages of Tintin’s adventures. This change forced Hergé to revise the format of its planks, which were now to be of rectangular format in four strips. But, careful, Hergé keeps track of the old format to the Italian in three strips for a possible publication in a daily newspaper abroad. This is one of those boards, so-called «security», which is offered for sale, made by Hergé in 1941-1942.
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Franquin, Moebius and Uderzo
Among the other parts of Hergé put to the auction is an invitation card, indian ink and watercolor, completed in 1968 to mark the 20th anniversary of the journal Tintin . Edited to only 100 copies and signed by the hand of Hergé, the invitation (estimated to be between 25,000 and 35,000 euros) represents Tintin dressed in various costumes.
Artcurial also offers the sale of a birthday card signed by the artist for the 70 years of Per Carlsen, the editor of the scandinavian of the adventures of Tintin. The young reporter, dressed as a Viking, wearing a helmet with horns, which protrude beyond mid-length hair blond. Snowy leaves for him to try a drinking horn decorated. This map, ink and watercolour is estimated to be between 15,000 and 20,000 euros.
The auction will also highlight designers modern, Enki Bilal with the plate 32 from the album The Fair of the immortals , published in 1980. You can watch a game of ice hockey bloodthirsty, in the Paris futuristic that Enki Bilal had imagined: an autonomous city under the fascist regime of Jean-Ferdinand Choublanc. The board, indian ink, gouache, pastel and graphite, is estimated to be between 50,000 and 60,000 euros.
Plate 32 of «The Fair of the immortals» of Enki Bilal, estimated at between 50,000 and 60,000 euros. Enki Bilal, The Fair of the Immortals/ Artcurial
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Among the other parts offered for sale, one finds works of Franquin, Moebius, or Uderzo. A board-original indian ink and gouache, made and signed by Jean-Claude Mézières for the cover of the Hostages of the Ultralum , the 16th album of the adventures of Valérian, is estimated to be between 25,000 and 35,000 euros. A total of 229 lots will be auctioned during this sale.
