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Rare Tintin Painting Could Break Record, May Fetch Nearly Rs 25 Crore at Auction
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The online sale is widely expected to confirm the huge appetite for memorabilia of Tintin, whose adventures have entertained people of all ages since the 1930s.
The previous world record for comic book art was set in 2014, when a double-page ink drawing that served as the inside cover for Tintin volumes published from 1937 to 1958 sold for 2.65 million euros ($3.6 million at the time).
The small painting being offered on Thursday, measuring 34 cm square (13 inches), features Tintin and his dog Snowy emerging from a porcelain jar in front of a menacing depiction of a Chinese dragon.
Rare Tintin painting sells in Paris for record €3.2 mln
A Paris auction house sold an original painting made for the 1936 Tintin comic book The Blue Lotus. The small Herge artwork fetched more than €3 million.
Jean-Paul Casterman was seven years old when he received a piece of paper with a drawing on it. The child folded the small watercolor of a youngster and his dog hiding from a dragon in a gigantic Chinese vase and put it in a drawer, where it languished for decades.
The man who gave little Jean-Paul the gift was none other than Georges Remi, better known as Herge. The boy s father, Louis Casterman, headed the publishing house that published the Belgian illustrator s world-famous comics about the adventures of a young reporter called Tintin and his dog, Snowy.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish telecoms regulator PTS will resume 5G spectrum auctions on Jan. 19, it said on Friday, after winning court approval to proceed even though China’s Huawei is taking legal action over its exclusion from 5G networks.
FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with the Huawei and 5G network logo is seen on a PC motherboard in this illustration picture taken January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
A Swedish court on Wednesday backed an appeal by PTS against a ruling to stop the auction, but also said telecoms equipment supplier Huawei could pursue a legal challenge over its exclusion from the country’s 5G rollout.