Hergé at the Grand Palais

[The-Collector]

If anyone goes to this I would love to see pics:

 

"Tintin fans will be delighted! Ten years after an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of Hergé’s birth at the Centre Pompidou, the Belgian creator is returning to the forefront of France’s museum scene with a show at the Grand Palais (28 September 2016 to 15 January 2017). Organised by Moulinsart and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in close collaboration with the Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve and its curator, Sophie Chang, the retrospective promises to be one of the major cultural events of the autumn period. The exhibition’s focus will be on the personality and imagination of HERGÉ (aka Georges Remi, 1907-1983). His life and artistic evolution will be explained in a theme-based circuit that will emphasise the polymorphic nature of his work and his eclecticism. Tintin’s creator (Tintin first appeared in January 1929) was a central figure of the Franco-Belgian comic scene. He was a multi-talented artist, even trying his hand at abstract painting in the 60s, and was also an art collector (Miró, Lucio Fontana etc.).

While collectors are not particularly interested in his paintings, they readily compete to acquire his best comic plates. Prices have risen sharply in recent years (his auction turnover tripled between 2013 and 2015) raising Hergé to 68th place in the drawing-watercolor category (artists’ ranking based on annual auction turnovers). Indeed the level of demand in this segment is bringing the ninth art de facto into the Fine Art hierarchy.

The figures speak for themselves with Sotheby’s Paris generating a record €1.5 million ($1.7 million, double its estimate) in October 2015 for Tintin, King Ottokar's Sceptre (pl. 95 & 96) and Artcurial (European specialist in comic strips since 2005) fetching more than €1 million (c. $1.2 million) for a double plate entitled King Ottokar's Sceptre (1939) on 30 April 2016. Although specialized comic strip sales are mainly held in France, there is also an Asian market for this type of work as Artcurial’s successful test sale in Hong Kong proved last October (The Blue Lotusfetched over a million dollars). This year, Artcurial will be holding a similar Hong Kong sale in October with a similar emphasis on comic strips including a preparatory drawing by Hergé dated 1979 that is expected to generate around a million dollars. It will be interesting to see the reaction that this work elicits..."

 

http://www.artprice.com/artmarketinsight/1392/Flash+News%253A+Herg%25C3%25A9+-+Grand+Palais+-+Positions+Berlin+-+Marc+Riboud

 

 

[suspense39]

Ui actually might be in France next month, if I am ill try and go.

[The-Collector]

Thanks a lot for the link. I will definitely go when I visit Brussels in December. Unfortunately, I can't imagine that photography will be allowed since it is not permitted at the Hergé Museum.

 

ugggh, that is quite antiquated. All galleries I have visited in the past year have allowed photography provided your flash is off. Fingers crossed they do allow it.

 

Would certainly still be interested to here a review if they don't.

[chromium]

Thanks a lot for the link. I will definitely go when I visit Brussels in December. Unfortunately, I can't imagine that photography will be allowed since it is not permitted at the Hergé Museum.

 

For a foreign visitor, this museum couldn't be easier to get to. From the Brussels Airport, you just take the escalator down to level -1 and get on one of the frequent direct trains to Brussels Central (15 minutes, tickets can be purchased in advance at b-rail.be). The museum is a 5 minute walk from there. Lots of hotels, including the Brussels Marriott, are within a 5 minute walk from the museum.

 

Are you sure you are not confusing the Belgian comic strip center, which is a huge comic book/strip museum in the centre of Brussels with the Hergé museum which is in Louvain La Neuve, over 20 miles away from Brussels and pretty hard to get to (over an hour by train) ?

 

Even though the Belgian comic strip centre is well worth the visit (the Art Deco building itself is incredible). You won't find any Hergé at all there, lots of other stuff though including the Smurfs.

The Hergé museum, fabulous as it may be, is very much off the beaten track and is in the middle of nowhere.

 

Hergé's widow and her second husband, absolutely refused to let the national museum exhibit any Tin Tin stuff, claiming her late husband transcended all the other comic strip artist and should have his very own museum. She even took the museum to court because it displayed Tin Tin props ( the large red/white rocket from the moon albums adorns the hallway). But it got thrown out of court.

 

It's a missed opportunity because now if you want to see the very best of the Franco-Belgian clear line art from the 20's through to the 70's you need to visit both museums.

[tb]

Thanks, chromium! I misunderstood the article.

 

I have visited both the strip museum 3 times and the Hergé museum twice during my visits in Brussels. Once I figured out how to take the train to Louvain-la-Neuve, it was actually pretty easy and well worth the hour or so that it takes to get there from central Brussels. I very much enjoyed both museums for very different reasons.

 

[The Shoveler]

Just to clarify in case anyone (else) is confused, this exhibit is not in Belgium, but at the Grand Palais in Paris. The one in France. http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/herge

 

Early December is a great time to see Paris. That part of the Champs Élysées is nicely decorated with lights and vendors selling the best smelling waffles..er gaufres. Start practing your French now:

 

"Je me languis désespérément pour vos gaufres irrésistibles. Je suis aussi follement amoureux de toi."

 

Another fringe benefit is that crowds are manageable at the tower, Louvre, Musée de l'Armée (found a great Calvo* book in their gift shop!), Sacré Cœur, walking tour of Notre-Dame's towers, etc. You should also be able to get some quality time up-close with the Mona Lisa (no flash!). And the above French phrase should be a nice little icebreaker at any of these other tourist traps.

 

*https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/calvo_ef.htm

 

 

 

[Eltanin]

I went to the exhibition this week. It was very interesting.

I didn't visit the museums in Brussels, so I have no point of comparison, but I think the exhibition was very complete and exhaustive.

There were many original pieces from the Tintin series, but also from the other comics on which Hergé worked.

The exhibition also included some artworks by other artists (such as Hergé portraits by Andy Warhol), or artworks collected by Hergé, as well as some more unexpected pieces (Hergé also did some advertisement drawings, for example, which I didn't know).

 

Pictures are allowed without flash, so I made use of my (not high quality) camera.

You can see the pictures I took in the photobucket album below.

Hergé at the Grand Palais

 

The exhibition lasts until January, and I encourage you to visit it if you get the chance to go to Paris.

[The Shoveler]

Nice pics! Thank you for sharing this!