20 December 2006 - 19 February 2007
The Pompidou Centre in Paris has brought together several hundred drawings and prints for an exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous Belgian illustrator, Hergé.
Comic strips have made a significant contribution to 20th century art and none is better known than Hergé’s most famous creation, the boy reporter Tintin and his dog Milou (Snowy). Hergé was the pen name of Georges Rémi, the French pronunciation of ‘R.G.’, his initials reversed. Hergé, born in Brussels in 1907, wrote and illustrated The Adventures of Tintin from 1929 until his death in 1983. This left the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure, "Tintin and Alph-art", unfinished and because Hergé specifically requested that no other illustrator be given the task of completing it, only the roughs and sketches have appeared in print.
The exhibition is free, to mark the Pompidou Centre’s own 30th anniversary.
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From our December 2006 e-newsletter
