New letters reveal Tintin made his Belgian creator 'sick'
Hergé's startling confession is just one of the revealing insights into his private thoughts, including love declarations to his first wife and a guilty admission of adultery, in letters showing the hidden side of the legendary artist.
Three hundred of them went under the hammer on Friday along with almost a thousand story boards, albums, statuettes and drawings at the Artcurial auction house in Paris. Most are written by Hergé – the nickname for Georges Remi – to his first wife Germaine Kieckens, his family and agent.
The letters were sold for 112,000 euros (£95,000) - around ten times the 10-15,000 euros. (£8,500 to £12,700), they were expected to fetch - to the Jean-Claude Vrain book shop in the French capital.
Starting with a postcard to his parents from a boy scout's camp in 1921 – when he was just 14 – the correspondence charts the highs and lows of Hergé's creative and love life up until the early 1950s...
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Three hundred of them went under the hammer on Friday along with almost a thousand story boards, albums, statuettes and drawings at the Artcurial auction house in Paris. Most are written by Hergé – the nickname for Georges Remi – to his first wife Germaine Kieckens, his family and agent.
The letters were sold for 112,000 euros (£95,000) - around ten times the 10-15,000 euros. (£8,500 to £12,700), they were expected to fetch - to the Jean-Claude Vrain book shop in the French capital.
Starting with a postcard to his parents from a boy scout's camp in 1921 – when he was just 14 – the correspondence charts the highs and lows of Hergé's creative and love life up until the early 1950s...