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Toile peinte n°1

Toile peinte n°1

Hergé liked modern art and its many possibilities. The Pop Art movement found one of its most forceful methods of expression in the use of enlarged bande dessinée images. Hergé, with his artist’s eye, could visualise the impact that large formats would work on his Tintin images. “Les toiles peints de Tintin” confirms this transformation. Three hand-painted works have just been issued in an exceptionally limited print run. Just three colours are used to create a tonal harmony: blue (the shade used for the endpapers of the black-and-white editions), grey (the intermediary between black and white) and sable used for the covers of pre-war editions). Through this knowing manipulation of colour and tone, “Les toiles peintes de Tintin” becomes the stepping-stone that bridges the black-and-white albums and the colour editions.

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