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Belgian Tintin ‘Blue Lotus’ cover auctioned for $3.9m
    2021-01-18  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A RARE painting of Tintin by Belgian cartoonist Hergésold for a record €3.2 million (US$3.9 million) at Parisian auction house Artcurial in France on Thursday.

The 1936 illustration, intended for the cover of Hergé’s fifth Tintin book, “The Blue Lotus,” shows the young hero hiding with his dog, Snowy, in a porcelain jar. It was painted with gouache, ink and watercolor.

It was eventually rejected as a cover because it would have been too expensive to reproduce, the auction house said in a press release ahead of the sale.

“The Blue Lotus” was expected to sell for between US$2.7 million and US$3.4 million, but ultimately went for US$3.9 million including fees — a world auction record both for a work by Hergé and for an original comic strip work.

“The painting was inspired by Hergé’s friend Chong, whom he met in 1935 in Brussels,” Eric Leroy, comic strip expert at Artcurial, said in a press release following the sale. “Chong described his native China, which influenced the story and the artwork of ‘The Blue Lotus.’”

Hergé, whose real name was Georges Remi, created the character of Tintin in the 1920s.

The tales have been translated into dozens of languages, and adapted for radio, television, film, theater and video games.

Despite their huge popularity, Tintin’s adventures have also been the subject of controversy.

During World War II, Hergé published Tintin strips in a Belgian newspaper allied with the Nazi regime.

And “Tintin in the Congo,” published in serial form in 1930-1931, took the boy reporter to Belgium’s then colony and depicted the African natives as inferior beings in need of civilization.

(SD-Agencies)

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