BD: Auctions: world record for a Spirou board – Loisirs

This is a new world record at auction for a board by Franquin. Saturday, at the Artcurial house in Paris, “La pirogue” sold at 337 600 euros (358 983 francs). It is a drawing in Indian ink made for the cover of the Spirou collection n ° 49 (1954).

We can see the Marsupilami, this enigmatic and mischievous animal from the imagination of the Belgian Franquin, hanging on a liana, spying on Spirou and Fantasio who went looking for him on a pirogue in the heart of the virgin forest of Palombie.

Big success for Hergé

Artcurial has accumulated a sum of 1 379 170 euros (1 466 525 francs), reports “Le Parisien”. For the late André Franquin, the poetic plate from Volume 1 of “Idées Noires” (imagined with Gotlib) changed hands to 117 000 euros (124 410 francs). A drawing of “Ottokar’s Scepter”, the eighth album of Tintin’s adventures, produced for the cover of the newspaper “Le Petit Vingtième” (1938), was also a great success. The hammer fell to 306 600 euros(325 000 francs) for this work in ink by Hergé.

The drawing of the “Ottokar Scepter” awarded to 325 000 francs (Artcurial)

Another drawing from Hergé Studios, entitled “The Black Island”, with a gorilla preparing to throw a stone at Tintin created the surprise. It flew away after a great phone auction battle in 39 000 euros (41 500francs ), multiplying its estimate by 39.

On the other hand, a gouache by Albert Uderzo, disappeared during confinement, showing Asterix and Obelix, produced for the cover of the coloring album “Punch”, published in 1966, did not find takers.

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Created: 06.28.2020, 5:34 p.m.

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