HERGÉ: (1907-1983) Georges Prosper Remi. Belgian Cartoonist. Best known for creating the series of comics ''The Adventures of Tintin''. A very rare signed and inscribed 8.5 x 11.5 photograph ` T Tournesol et Hergé´, the image showing the Belgian artist in a close-up smiling portrait pose. Hergé inscribes the photograph to a doctor, and for this reason signs as ` T. Tournesol et Hergé´, referring to Tryphon Tournesol, one of his main characters in the Adventures of Tintin, also called Professor Calculus or Professor Tournesol. Signed and inscribed in bold dark ink to the lower part of the image. Small overall creasing, otherwise G

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