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Hello,

I'm new to the forum, but I'm very interested in purchasing an original drawing. I've looked around on eBay and Google, but haven't had any luck. Do you know of anyone who specializes in these? Alternatively, does anyone on the forum have one with which they'd be willing to part?

Cheers,

Leedy

Originals are hard to come by and expensive.

Your best best is to attend an auction (or bid via telephone or e-mail). Major auctions are usually announced on this site (see the relevant thread and links to catalogues - by visiting the Artcurial website, for example, you can check original estimates and final results).

Dealers occasionally have a few pieces "in stock". A "Quick et Flupke" drawing is available here for 10,000 euros, for example:

http://www.danielmaghen.com/fr/herge-quick-et-flupke-flupke-visuel-sur -demande_p33252.htm

(An illustration is provided on demand)

Indeed!

You’re going to need long arms and deep pockets Leedy! Remember that Hergé holds the record for the highest amount ever paid at auction for a piece of comic art anywhere in the world (the colour original of the front-cover art for the black and white Tintin in America)!

Also be aware that there are many forgeries and fakes out there, so always get as much provenance as you can before parting with any money - the example which luinivierge2010 links to has impeccable credentials, in that it has been appraised and passed as authentic by M. Bernard Tordeur, who is the senior person in charge of the archives of Hergé’s work. You really can’t do better than that!

If you do buy it, can I come and see it, please? ;-)

Get in contact with Moulinsart.If your a serious buyer they may have something for you.They have archives of original drawings that i hear they sell to private dealers.

I have never heard of that... Moulinsart does not own any drawing, since they belong to Hergé's widow

Sure they do.

I think that dusp has made a fair point - the Fondation/ Studio own the artwork, and I’ve not ever heard of them selling anything either. They buy stuff which comes on the market if it interests them, and very occasionally donate pieces, which is why it was such a big deal when Mme. Rodwell gave artwork to the Pompidou Centre. Moulinsart have the rights to exploit that art commercially, but they use the Studio’s archives for this.

If Moulinsart were selling artwork, why wouldn’t they just up and say so - why go through a dealer, when they could just deal it themselves, and keep all the money?

It is entirely possible that, because, as has been shown, they are approached by people wanting to get art authenticated for sale, that they are able to put people who enquire about buying in touch with sellers, but it seems unlikely that they have anything to sell themselves, other than books and merchandise. Why do you think that they do, number1fan?

Recently had the auction and some other circumstances its being in the know.

If it’s the sort of being “in the know” which means you can’t actually say anything about it, should it be being mentioned here at all? You know how careful we have to be in dealings with Moulinsart, so to suddenly reveal this completely unknown aspect of their dealings might not meant to be discussed.
There was an auction in May, but that isn’t really the same as selling to dealers or members of the public, and it was prints and merchandise I think, rather than artwork.