HERGE: (1907-1983) Georges Prosper Remi. Belgian cartoonist, creator of The Adventures of Tintin. An excellent and rare signed and inscribed 10 x 13.5 photograph (25cm x 34 cm), the image depicting Hergé in a close-up head and shoulders pose. Signed and inscribed in bold black ink to the lower photographer´s mount, `A France et Roger Ferrari, en très cordial souvenir - Hergé´, also dated in his hand in December 1979. Signed photographs of Hergé are of the utmost rarity and the present example is highly desirable owing to its interesting association. VG

France Ferrari and her husband Roger were close friends of Hergé. France worked as a colorist at the Hergé Studio from 1955, and Roger later became involved in writing scripts for Quick & Flupke comic book publications following a revival of interest in the ´urchins of Brussels´, two characters created by Hergé in the 1930s.