Lot no. 88
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The Crab with the Golden Claws
India ink on paper for an illustration intended for a colouring book. Accompanied by its certificate from the Comité Hergé. 35 × 27.5 cm.
In 1944, when Hergé was drawing
was drawing The 7 Crystal Balls
(an adventure published in
in the newspaper Le Soir),
three "Tintin & Snowy" colouring books were
Snowy" were marketed.
This drawing is taken from the third
from the original black and white
edition of this album, published
in 1941 by Casterman.
In one of the alleys of the port
on the Moroccan coast where they
disembarked, Tintin, preceded by
Snowy, and under the astonished
of passers-by and shopkeepers.
tries to follow Allan, the Karaboudjan's first
first lieutenant of the Karaboudjan,
while Captain Haddock
does his best not to fall
to keep up. A drawing
composition: a diagonal
diagonal trajectory, movement
movement, and a character
at full speed, towards whom all heads
to whom all heads turn.
. HERGE
In 1944, at the time when Hergé
was drawing The 7 Crystal Balls
(an adventure published as a
in the newspaper Le Soir),
three 'Tintin & the Scene' colouring books.
Snowy" were marketed.
This drawing is from the third
from the original edition in
edition of this album published
in 1941 by Casterman.
In one of the port's alleyways
of the Moroccan coast where they
disembarked, Tintin, preceded by
Snowy, and under the astonished
of passers-by and shopkeepers.
tries to keep up with Allan, the first
first lieutenant of Karaboudjan,
while Captain Haddock
does his best not to
to keep up. A drawing
with a studied composition: a
diagonal trajectory, from
movement, and a character
at full speed towards whom all
to whom all heads turn.
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