Tintin and the Thermo-Zero : the plate unknown Hergé auction, Le Figaro

AUCTIONS Christie’s creates the surprise by putting on sale an unfinished work, crayonnée by the father of refer to now the powder, on the 19th of November in Paris. A lot that could well overshadow another original exception, pleadWe walked on the moon, proposed the same day at Artcurial.

The exhibition Tintin at the Grand Palais panics the hammer of the auction. The auction house Christie’s will put on sale in Paris on 19 November original drawings of Hergé, in which, for the first time, a board amazing outcome of Tintin and the Thermo-Zero, an album that remained unfinished. This sale will coincide with another sale of works of Hergé organised the same day by the house concurrent Artcurial, and which lot lighthouse is a board We walked on the moon, estimated between 700.000 and 900.000 euros.

Tintin and the Thermo-Zero is the sketch of an album that became legendary for the “tintinophiles”. Its history remains relatively unknown. Hergé had begun to work there in the late 1950s after his masterpiece, Tintin in Tibet. But the project, a story of espionage on the background of the cold War, will never succeed, because the project is apprarente a lot in many ways The calculus Affair, which also is inspired by the spy films of the 60s, James Bond. In the Thermo-Zero, the object of the quest of the characters is a bomb of a new kind, that the writer and cartoonist Greg, who is developing the script for the Tintin sets “like a chemical mixture, allowing a release of heat, even in an atmosphere deprived of oxygen.”

Hergé will not go any further than the sketch of the first eight boards. It is, therefore, one of these boards (the other six are stored at the Musée Hergé in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), which is on sale by Christie s. It is estimated to be between 200,000 and 250,000 euros.

This page should have been the fourth of the album. Done in pencil by the hand of Hergé himself (and not a designer of studios Hergé), it represents Tintin, Snowy and captain Haddock rescuing victims of a road accident. And you can discover all the creative energy of Hergé, in search of the “clear line”.

Christie’s is also selling a board original China ink and gouache white album One has walked on the moon, showing the return to Earth of the moon rocket. It is estimated between 350,000 and 400,000 euros. But be careful, the other side of the Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, Artcurial, another board from the same album is on sale on the same day. Because this board ofOne has walked on the moon watch it, Tintin, Snowy and captain Haddock walking on the moon, is estimated to double, between 700.000 and 900.000 euros.