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Les Cartes : dédoublement
Patopalomo
Painting - 14 x 14 x 0.14 cm Painting - 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch
$84
Les Cartes - Rouge à lèvre
Patopalomo
Painting - 14 x 14 x 0.14 cm Painting - 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch
$84
The Roy's French girlfriend
Neno Ramos
Painting - 120 x 120 x 6 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 2.4 inch
$18,000
Crazy life - Joker vision
Simone De Rosa
Painting - 90 x 65 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 25.6 x 0.6 inch
$783
L'oiseau guide les chameaux
Philippe Jacq
Painting - 50 x 65 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 2 inch
$2,796
The big wave - La grande vague
Illegalartbusiness
Painting - 120 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
$10,625
FACE TO FACE : CONVERGENCE OF WORLDS, TRADITION AND MANGA IN DIALOGUE
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 195 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$7,046
BEE : FLORAL INTRIGUE, THE BEE’S DANCE IN TOKYO’S GARDEN
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 200 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 2 inch
$8,948
WONDERFULL GANJURO : GANJURO’S MARVEL, TOKYO’S KABUKI REVIVAL
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 195 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$7,046
GRRRRR!!!!! : URBAN ROAR, EXPRESSIONS IN TOKYO’S MANGA JUNGLE
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 180 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 63 x 2 inch
$8,053
RED HAT : CRIMSON CROWN, TOKYO’S ICON OF RESILIENCE
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 200 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 2 inch
$8,948
DUEL : CLASH OF ERAS, TRADITION AND MANGA UNLEASHED
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 200 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 2 inch
$8,948
Monade illustrée
Antoine Graff
Sculpture - 105 x 85 x 16 cm Sculpture - 41.3 x 33.5 x 6.3 inch
$8,388
Mini Lego Robin
Jérôme Bourgeot
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$280
Le petit prince rencontre Lichtenstein
Sokar
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,796
Marilyn Monroe
Natan Elkanovich
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$15,658
Superheroes love fries
Sanuj Birla
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.5 inch
$1,800
Horn Boy
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.01 inch
$300
Batman - L'obscurité
Joël Cuoq
Sculpture - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,382
Wile E Coyote money bags
Carlos Pun Art
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,200
Superhero Banana boat Ride
Sanuj Birla
Print - 101.6 x 106.7 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 42 x 0.1 inch
$600
Comics
Long considered childish and largely ignored by the mainstream, the graphic novel has had to fight for recognition and its status as the ninth art. Today, fully integrated in the art world, graphic novels are knocking on the doors of auction houses and breaking new records every time - in 2014, an original page of Tintin hand drawn in ink by Hergé was valued at 2.5 million euros.
It's a common misconception that the graphic novel was invented in America in 1896 with the creation of Yellow Kid. In fact, we can trace it back to the 1830s and Swiss artist Rudolphe Töpffer, who came up with the theory of 'mixed' literature, merging constantly evolving drawings with short storylines.
Nevertheless, at the start of the 20th century it was indeed the Americans who were the first real consumers of comics. This popularity can be partly explained by the role of the press at the time. Two huge publishers - Heartz and Pulitzer - were locked in fierce competition to attract as many readers as possible and their combined efforts to improve production paved the way for huge technical progress, with the press able to print ever greater volumes ever more quickly. At the time, comic strips appeared in the form of satirical drawings and humorous adaptations suitable for all ages, but they quickly proved so popular that the strips were grouped together in books so that they could be revisited at leisure.
The 1930s marked the golden age of the graphic novel with the birth of the first super heroes like Superman and Batman, and the emergence of the famous Marvel and DC studios.
It was a similar story in Europe across the 30s and 50s as the Franco-Belgian school established itself with the emergence of brilliant authors such as Hergé and Franquin and the cult characters of the era: Tintin, Lucky Luke, Spirou… previously considered to be reserved for younger readers, from the 60s onwards graphic novels began to take on a more adult, less puritanical approach.
The graphic novel is by now an accomplished art form with its own grand masters, but it took on a new direction and joined the ranks of art history under the impetus of the precursors of pop art: Mel Ramos, Andy Warhol and, above all, Roy Lichtenstein.
In 1961 Lichtenstein painted one of his most famous works: Look Mickey. It was the first work by an artist to use the qualities of a comic strip, and it had a decisive impact on Lichtenstein's career. From then on, the artist freely used text bubbles and drawings from various comics and adapted them into his colourful pop art.
Meanwhile, the other side of the Pacific saw the creation of an art form very similar to graphic novels, which quickly rose to prominence: manga. Although it did not establish itself in France until the late 1990s, manga traces its origins back to the beginning of the 20th century. The master of Japanese print making, Hokusai, is said to be at the origins of manga (which comes from the word for 'sketches' or 'light image'). Inspired by the ancestral arts of Kabuki as well as the Ehon and Emaki illustrations, manga saw much of its huge successes thanks to constant developments in the press.
Kitazawa Rakuten, a household name in manga, is also widely recognised as the creator of the first school of graphic novels, which boasts an impressive array of talented alumni: Naoki Urasawa, Tezuka Osamu, Tatsumi Yoshihiro, Otomo Katsuhiro…
Explore the complex and surprising world of the 9th art with this unique modern selection of paintings, full editions and drawings. Discover the works of the best known artists, alongside young emerging talents like Lenil Yu, David Leroi, Lucio Forte…