Hergé's Art - Hergé and Art

That The Adventures of Tintin are a work of art and Hergé a great artist is beyond doubt... and this album is the definitive monograph of his work.

Since his first appearance in the weekly Le Petit Vingtième in 1929, Tintin has become one of the most famous comic book characters.

More than 230 million copies of Hergé's 24 albums have been published in over 100 languages and dialects worldwide. Pierre Sterckx designed this work using the archives of the Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

He presents the evolution of the artist's work, from the simplicity of his first sketches to the achievement of his ligne claire, from his attempts at coloring to the perfect mastery of his last plates.

He also shows us the ancient and modern painters who inspired his work.

Revealing a little-known side of Hergé, he finally introduces us for the first time to some of the contemporary artists such as Fontana, Poliakoff, Warhol or Lichtenstein, whom he passionately collected.