By Toutatis ! Almost two months after the death of the comic genius at the top of the pencil line bright, happy and cheerful and who mastered to perfection the syntax of the movement, notably in the adventures of the famous and indomitable gauls, a sale new highlights. Thought by his wife Ada Uderzo and his daughter Sylvie Uderzo, the vacation prepared by the parisian house Artcurial is a tribute to the father of Asterix and joined the national support for the hospital staff. In effect, the funds raised at future auctions will be donated to benefit the Foundation Hospitals of Paris-Hospitals of France to the emergency assistance Fund Covid-19.
Albert Uderzo (1927-2020) “Asterix” – volume 30 ” The Galley of Obelix “. Ink of China on paper for the board 6 of this album released in 1996 for the editions Albert René. Board in very good condition. 60 x 44 cm. Sale for the benefit of the Foundation Hospitals of Paris-Hospitals of France. Estimate : 80 000 / 120 000 euros. © DR
” My husband had been very moved by the terrible health crisis as we know it. My daughter and I wanted to do this he would surely have done, namely to support and to thank, in memory of the personal caregivers, these new heroes of the village in France, ” explains Ada Uderzo. “An exceptional sale of five original boards, which testifies to the great generosity of the artist, one of the greatest cartoonists in the history of the comic strip,” says Eric Leroy, an expert from the Artcurial.
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Albert Uderzo (1927-2020), “Oumpah-Pah” – tome 1 ” Skin-Red “. Ink of China on paper for the board 15 of this album released in 1961 by éditions du Lombard. Pre-published in 1958 in ” Le Journal de Tintin n° 21. Board in very good condition. 47 X 38 cm. Sale for the benefit of the Foundation Hospitals of Paris-Hospitals of France. Estimate : 40 000 / 60 000 euros. © DR
Rarity and origin
Myth symptomatic of the Twentieth century and global success, Astérix has joined the pantheon of the comic world from her debut in 1959 in a pre-publication inserted in the first number of the newspaper Pilot. Under the anachronisms of their albums, Astérix can, in many cases, reflect the analysis of our time, and even its anticipation. So the album Asterix and the Transitalique, released in 2017, and in which a champion of chariot racing roman is baptized… Coronavirus ! A prediction that makes sense today, at a time when will be dispersed from the boards of the artist-style expansive and rounded, became the incarnation of an imaginary world warm.
Albert Uderzo (1927-2020) “Asterix” – volume 31 ” Asterix and Latraviata “. China ink and pencil on paper to the plate 18 of this album released in 2001 éditions Albert René. Phylacteries pencil. Board in excellent condition. 45 x 32.5 cm. Sale for the benefit of the Foundation Hospitals of Paris-Hospitals of France. Estimate : 80 000 / 120 000 euros. © DR
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As noted by the department, led by Eric Leroy, ” Uderzo is the French artist who, starting in the 1960s and 1970s, has imposed a style and a synthesis between the parody of the flamboyant characters of the series and realism, along with, in the background, a scenery inspired by historical and cultural references. The chart is in the service of a comedy both visual and verbal “. Elements which are reflected in the three original boards of the adventures of Asterix put to auction on may 26th. Ink of China on paper (estimate 80 000-120 000), are from various albums of the 1990s and 2000s, including the volume 31, Asterix and Latraviata, volume 29 The Rose and the Sword and the tome 30, The Galley of Obelix when the druid Panoramix is called (except Obelix), in turn, the indomitable villagers to take a little bit of magic potion.
Albert Uderzo (1927-2020), “Asterix” – volume 29, ” The Rose and the Sword “. Ink of China on paper to the plate 38 of this album published in 1991 by the editions Albert René. Board in excellent condition. 45 x 32.5 cm. Sale for the benefit of the Foundation Hospitals of Paris-Hospitals of France. Estimate : 80 000 / 120 000 euros. © DR
in Addition to Asterix, Artcurial will offer two other lots. In the first place, an extremely rare indian ink, pencil and blue pencil on paper of the Adventures of Tanguy and Laverdure. From the volume 4 of the series, Flight of the storks, published in 1964 éditions Dargaud and pre-published in 1962 in the journal Pilot, the board is estimated to be between 60 000 and 100 000 euros. And in the second place, Ada and Sylvie Uderzo have selected a board of the famous hero Oumpah-Pah, created by Goscinny and Uderzo, whose first appearance was on April 2, 1958 in The Journal of Tintin. This ink on paper is from the album The Skin-Red, volume 1 of the series published in 1961 by éditions du Lombard (estimated 40 000-60 000€). Boards, rare, and of origin, all being derived from the family of the artist. An important item on the auction market of the comic strip, little powered by inks original of Albert Uderzo and that should increase the désidérabilité collectors at the fall of the hammer.
Albert Uderzo (1927-2020), “Tanguy and Laverdure” – tome 4 Squadron ” storks “. China ink, pencil and blue pencil on paper for the board 6 of this album released in 1964 éditions Dargaud. Pre-published in 1962 in the journal “Pilot”, n° 126. Board in very good condition. 50,50 x 41, 50 cm. Sale for the benefit of the Foundation Hospitals of Paris-Hospitals of France. Estimate : 60 000 / 100 000 euros. © DR
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Franquin, Hergé and Moebius to the honour in June
June 27, the ninth art will be on the front of the stage of the auction. More than 200 lots will honor the classic era and modern of the comic strip. On the side of the flagship artists, André Franquin will be particularly represented with a selection of rare original plates, as The Canoe, an ink made for the cover of the recueil Spirou issue # 49, published in 1954. The drawing shows the Marsupilami, pet enigmatic imagined by the cartoonist, spying on Spirou and Fantasio, parties with his research on a pirogue (estimate 350 000-450 000 euros).
André Franquin ” Recueil Spirou n°49 “, ” Canoe “, Chinese ink, blue pencil and lead pencil on paper for the cover of the “Recueil Spirou n°49,” published on April 1, 1954 – 37,50 x 28,50 cm Estimate : 350 000 – 450 000 euros. © DR
also of note, a plank four-hands, performed by Franquin and Gotlib (1981). From the volume 1 black thoughts album satirical black humour, indian ink and gouache is estimated to be between 70 000 and 90 000 euros. The sale will also offer another sure value of the comic franco-belgian Hergé, and a drawing of the Sceptre of Ottokar, the eighth album of the adventures of Tintin. Done for the cover of the newspaper Le Petit Vingtième, published in 1938, it tells the story of Tintin on his arrival to Prague, accompanied by his sidekick hairy Milou, stumbling to the exit of the plane by catching up and narrowly the beard of the shadowy Doctor Halambique (estimate 250 000-350 000€). As to the new wave, more than ever, popular one on the market of the second hand, Artcurial will offer a beautiful acrylic and pastel blue tones of Enki Bilal baptized Ulysses in Love, and was published in 2012 (estimated 20 000-25 000 euros) as well as an acrylic on cardboard, 1998, executed by Moebius (estimated to 5,000-7,000 euros). Finally, the sale will highlight the work of Jean-Claude Mézières with The Orphan of the stars. This gouache and Chinese ink, was made for the cover of volume 17 of the universe of cosmic Valérian and is estimated to be between 40 000 and 45 000 euros.
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