Prints : Ever Meulen

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"Fresco belge" - Ever Meulen

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Belgian Fresco could be described as Ever Meulen’s ‘grand design’ in every sense of the term, a history of Belgian comic books from the late 1920s to the end of the Second World War, notable for both its sheer physical size and its artistic scope. This intricately detailed illustration chronicles the history of Belgian comics, starting with the late 1920s (birth of Tintin) and concluding with the end of the Second World War. All the masters of Belgian comics’ golden era are represented: Hergé, Jijé, Sirius, Will, Vandersteen, Sleen, Franquin, Jacobs as well as many others. This high quality pictographic print (similar to Digigraphic printing) offers a scaled-down reproduction of the original artwork (measuring 12.5m in length by 1.88 metres in height) which Ever Meulen created for the Belgian Comics: Frames of Reference exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels. His fresco accompanied others by Francois Avril and Josst Swarte, thereby giving the viewer the chance to take a visual journey of comic history from Paris (Avril) to Amsterdam (Swarte) by way of Brussels (Meulen). This print is limited to 50 copies signed and numbered by Ever Meulen.