Christie's Tintin 14 Mars 2015

The auction sale catalogue for Tintin organised by Christie's and the Daniel Maghen gallery on the 14^th of March, 2015. 

The sale of 10 Tintin plates at Christie's on March 14th, fetched €800,000.

The second lot, an original cover produced for Le Journal de Tintin in 1978 and offered to the publication's director, fetched 577,000 euros. 

The creator of the famous reporter in knickerbockers is a sure thing on the market. In May 2014, a sale at Artcurial fetched a record 2.65 million euros, including fees. And on 7 March this year, Sotheby's began selling comic strips. A 1938 cover for the tenth anniversary of Le Petit Vingtième sold for €453,000, within the €450,000-480,000 estimate. Total sales that day devoted to Hergé came to 1.2 million euros.

We can say that the comics market is doing well since Christie's achieved total sales of just over €5 million!

As Christies says on their website :

Dedicated to Tintin’s creator, Hergé, this exceptional sale comprises 10 lots including the original 1978 cover for Le Journal de Tintin. The design brings together all the characters from Le Lotus Bleu: Tintin and Snowy, Dupond and Dupont, the young Tchang, Mr and Mrs Wang and their son Didi, victim of the poison of madness, among others.

Further highlights include two important drawings for Coke en stock, an original drawing for a greetings card featuring the characters from Le Temple du Soleil, a plate from Quick et Flupke dated 7 May 1935 and a beautiful original illustration for a booksellers’ poster executed in 1945.