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It went for a lot of money (surprise!). :)

From a letter to the comicartl@freelist.org mailing list from ruediger.krischel@t-online.de

Dear all, there’s a new record price for a cover by Hergé: 2.6 plus fee = 3.000.000 Euro for 34 x 34 cm in gouache!

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On 1/14/2021 at 11:51 AM, alxjhnsn said:

It went for a lot of money (surprise!). :)

From a letter to the comicartl@freelist.org mailing list from ruediger.krischel@t-online.de

Dear all, there’s a new record price for a cover by Hergé: 2.6 plus fee = 3.000.000 Euro for 34 x 34 cm in gouache!

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"From a letter to the comicartl@freelist.org mailing list from ruediger.krischel@t-online.de

Dear all, there’s a new record price for a PRELIM cover by Hergé: 2.6 plus fee = 3.000.000 Euro for 34 x 34 cm in gouache!"

fixed it

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15 hours ago, bluechip said:

"From a letter to the comicartl@freelist.org mailing list from ruediger.krischel@t-online.de

Dear all, there’s a new record price for a PRELIM cover by Hergé: 2.6 plus fee = 3.000.000 Euro for 34 x 34 cm in gouache!"

fixed it

Not to split hairs but an unpublished work is not the same as a prelim.   A prelim is a working draft.    This is a final work that was rejected and he had to start over. 

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Not to split hairs (^^) but:

  1. It sold for €3,175,400 not $3M
  2. That's not a question of liking the background or not. The editor thought that this cover was too complex and would be too expensive to print, that's why the definitive version is much simpler.
  3. It was a prelim, even if it looks like a finished work. You can see that the face of Tintin is not finished, for instance. Plus Hergé fold the illustration and stapled it to the letter sent to the editor (we can still see the small holes). Who would do that to a final cover?
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On 1/22/2021 at 2:03 AM, Bronty said:

Not to split hairs but an unpublished work is not the same as a prelim.   A prelim is a working draft.    This is a final work that was rejected and he had to start over. 

Splitting hairs is okay because in this case you are correct.   (Although now I see NiCov's opine that it is a prelim.  Interesting).  I was riffing off the way some focus on published art to such extremes that they equate a vintage prelim or unused cover to any old commission which might have been done many years later when it wasn't a part of the original creation process and by which time the artist's style and technique had changed or even devolved.  If you're a fan of Tin Tin, it has to be more interesting to you that this was made during the creation of the issue(s) you remember.  

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7 hours ago, Will_K said:

Hergé (Georges Remi dit) Lotus Bleu Projet de CouvertureOriginal Art Signed Lithograph (Casterman, 1981). Lithograph for the cover project of the "petite image" edition of this album printed in 1981 by Casterman on the occasion of Tchang Tchong-Jen's visit in Tournai. About twenty copies have been signed. Rare! Damp stain in the left edge. Tear in the right margin outside the image area. Signed by Hergé and Tchang Tchong-Jen. Dated. 17" x 24". In Good Condition.
 

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that's not quite the story...hergé wanted to change and have a new editor, and then came to casterman, and proposed this cover (he still wasn't working with the editor then) ....the editor rejected the cover, because it was too complicated to print at the time, but still he was very pleased with it....they signed a contract for publishing hergé books, and hergé offered the refused cover to the son of the editor to help conclude the deal

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14 hours ago, Will_K said:

It's a (nice) print signed by Hergé and Tchang

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