{"id":36525,"date":"2020-09-09T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/?p=36525"},"modified":"2022-11-28T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:12:44","slug":"spotlight-ona-3-million-e-comic-book-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2020\/09\/spotlight-ona-3-million-e-comic-book-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind this \u20ac3 million comic book cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>If you stand on the Boulevard des Moulins and look through the bay window of Artcurial\u2019s Monaco offices, you can see a book cover by Belgian cartoonist Herg\u00e9 that could become the highest grossing piece of comic art ever to be sold.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece in question is the original cover design of The Blue Lotus, the fifth episode of Herg\u00e9\u2019s legendary comic book series \u201cThe adventures of Tintin\u201d. A 35 cm by 35cm square, painted in India ink, watercolour and gouache, its value is estimated between 2 and 3 million euros. It depicts Tintin hiding with his fox terrier Milou in a Ming-Era vase, while a menacing dragon towers above them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by a picture of Chinese American actress Anna May Wong, the piece has never been on the market up to now and will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2020\/06\/monaco-to-welcome-prestigious-auctions\/\">auctioned off<\/a> in Paris on November 21<sup>st<\/sup>. Until then, the painting is on its own European Grand Tour. After Monaco, it will be sent to Brussels \u2013 Tintin\u2019s birthplace \u2013 then Munich, before its final stop in Paris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dragon-magazine-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36527\" width=\"590\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dragon-magazine-2-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dragon-magazine-2-2-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dragon-magazine-2-2-108x146.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dragon-magazine-2-2-37x50.jpg 37w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dragon-magazine-2-2-56x75.jpg 56w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption>Anna May Wong in a promotional shoot for Shanghai Express (1932). The cover is said to have inspired The Blue Lotus (1936)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An unlikely friendship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After the USSR, Congo, America and Egypt, Tintin heads for China, hoping to dismantle the opium trafficking industry. This new adventure marks a turning point in Herg\u00e9\u2019s career: The Blue Lotus is the first book in which Herg\u00e9&#8217;s depiction of foreign cultures is based upon original research and the cartoonist no longer relies on commonplace assumptions and stereotypes to bring Tintin&#8217;s voyages alive.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To account for such change is Herg\u00e9\u2019s friendship with Chinese artist Zhang Chongren. Zhang was studying in Brussels at the time and introduced Herg\u00e9 to Chinese culture, allowing the cartoonist to go beyond European prejudices about the so-called \u201cOrient\u201d. Not a stranger to a little self-irony, Herg\u00e9 even included in The Blue Lotus a strip openly mocking the many stereotyped assumptions that Europeans held about China in the 1930s.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1934-herge_germaine_et_tchang-579x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36536\" width=\"579\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1934-herge_germaine_et_tchang-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1934-herge_germaine_et_tchang-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1934-herge_germaine_et_tchang-768x1359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1934-herge_germaine_et_tchang-82x146.jpg 82w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1934-herge_germaine_et_tchang-28x50.jpg 28w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1934-herge_germaine_et_tchang-42x75.jpg 42w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1934-herge_germaine_et_tchang.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><figcaption><em>Herg\u00e9, his wife Germaine and Zhang Chongren in Brussels in 1934. Collection Studios Herg\u00e9<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Money matters&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artcurial.com\/en\/news\/blue-lotus-herge-masterpiece-auction\">Artcurial<\/a> has an impressive track-record when it comes to comics. The French auction house holds the record for the most expensive piece of comic art ever sold: the original inside cover pages of Tintin were auctioned off by Artcurial in 2014 for 2.6 million euros, a record which The Blue Lotus is expected to break.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This artwork is a genuine masterpiece<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a unique piece, and probably the most important piece of comic art from a private collection. This artwork is a genuine masterpiece encapsulating Herg\u00e9\u2019s genius and is probably the most beautiful Tintin album cover ever!\u201d tells us Eric Leroy, Artcurial\u2019s comic strips expert.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, there cannot be an exceptional price without an exceptional story. The design was originally refused by Herg\u00e9\u2019s publisher because too expensive to print. Herg\u00e9 then gave the drawing to Louis Casterman, the son of his publisher, who kept it tucked away in a drawer, carefully folded into six.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fold marks remain visible on the painting to this day. When asked about the impact of such marks, Artcurial\u2019s comic strips expert replies that it all depends on the buyer: \u201cThe marks are part of the piece\u2019s history. You could even say that because it was folded for so long, the drawing has kept its original colours. It is up to the future buyer to restore it to its initial state, if they wish to.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tintin in Monegasque<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/herge-lotus-a-300px-3.jpg\" alt=\"HERGE-LOTUS-A-300px-3\" class=\"wp-image-36556\" width=\"300\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/herge-lotus-a-300px-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/herge-lotus-a-300px-3-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/herge-lotus-a-300px-3-143x146.jpg 143w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/herge-lotus-a-300px-3-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/herge-lotus-a-300px-3-73x75.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>The original cover design by Herg\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2010, Nice university professor Eliane Mollo and Dominique Salvo-Cellario, teacher of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2020\/04\/umparamu-u-munegascu-discovering-the-monegasque-language\/\">Monegasque language<\/a> in Monaco, set themselves a peculiar task: to translate the 21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;volume of the Tintin saga \u2013 the Castafiore Emerald (\u201cLes bijoux de la Castafiore\u201d) \u2013 into Monegasque. Mindful to preserve the orality of the language, the result is a story filled with references to the Principality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Monegasque, the title becomes <em>I&nbsp;Ori d&#8217;A Castafiore<\/em>. Tintin\u2019s dog is now called <em>Milu<\/em> (rather than Milou) and barks in the local dialect (\u201cbau bau\u201d), while Captain Haddock is no longer Captain Haddock, but captain <em>Stocaf\u00ec<\/em>, after a local cod stew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original cover design of The Blue Lotus (1936) is on show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artcurial.com\/fr\/artcurial-monaco\">Artcurial Monaco<\/a> until September 11<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you stand on the Boulevard des Moulins and look through the bay window of Artcurial\u2019s Monaco offices, you can 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