Origins

This 1931 self-portrait opens like a window on a creative world in the making.

We see a young artist who, without knowing it yet, is already drawing the first lines of a singular graphic design. This sketch is not just an intimate exercise: it is a way of dreaming, of guessing oneself, at a time when his art was still searching for its form and light.

In the purposeful sharpness of the line, in that clarity which will become his signature, one already perceives a steady hand and an observer’s most innovative gaze. Between the apparent simplicity and the meticulous construction, something takes place: a balance, a rhythm, an unusual way of telling the world in pure lines.

Revisiting this sketch today is much more than praising a major figure in comic strip art. It is to return to the fragile and founding moment where an artistic destiny took shape, the moment of revelation when Georges Remi became Hergé.