The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Le Petit Vingtième 13-02-1930)

Elegance suffuses this piece: in the forms of the wood-chips, the supple folds of the leather of the flight jacket, and of the boots, the appearance of sheepskin on the hero's collar and gloves... The streaks of the tree stump which Tintin in sitting on respond to the lines of Snowy's bandages. The grass we can make out near the plane's wheel echoes the thin pines on the horizon.

This piece sold for a Record price of $1,125,000 in our 2019 June European Comic Art Signature Auction.