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All collectors of original illustrations would be very proud to highlight in their library a ‘Strip’ or an ‘Original Plate’ of this remarkable album designed by Hugo Pratt in 1981: ‘La Jeunesse de Corto Maltese’.

As the original illustrations of this album are rare on the market, very few collectors realized that these strips are quite large, for which each panel measures 15 x 15 cm, and therefore more than 45 cm x15 cm for a whole strip, which makes the framings very spectacular and appropriate for modern interiors.

This album titled ‘La Jeunesse de Corto Maltese’ is very famous in Italy and in the French-speaking countries for the following reasons:

- Pre-publication by individual strips in 1982 in Italy (magazine L’internauta:  The Gionivezza) and in France (Le Matin de Paris) in 1981 and 1982 (A suivre, Casterman).

- Many publications in albums and reissues, black and white + colour, including illustrations found on the Internet are presented as documentation in this lot.

- Exceptional encounter between Corto Maltese, Raspoutine and Jack London to make a mythical trio in the history of the European comics, only in this album. 

This strip is very evocative of this famous first war between Russia and Japan from 1904 to 1905 and, especially of this ambivalent atmosphere of end of war which starts from the first plate of this story, with Raspoutine killing a Japanese soldier while the end of the war is announced, and will serve as a framework of the whole story...

Hugo Pratt had the intelligence to mix fictional characters, such as Corto Maltese,.... with other characters more rooted in reality, like Jack London, the American... and the Russian Rasputin.

Besides, Hugo Pratt gives himself a treat in this remarkable strip... and also pleases us. Featuring Raspoutine in every panel, PROFILE,BACK AND FULL-FACE.... 

Great art..... for this exceptional presence of RASPOUTINE, and especially in this first remarkable panel featuring Rasputin with  two young girls from a brothel...

This beautiful first box could itself be reproduced in large format silkscreen printing.....

The third panel is also essential for the story, since it features Rasputin accosting Lieutenant Sakai (who will also become a very important character in this story by Hugo Pratt...).

This Hugo Pratt ‘MASTERPIECE’ is enough to enhance a beautiful collection of original illustrations...

Large-size strip, original texts in Italian with Pratt's original handwriting in pencil and not erased (including the publication date on the back: ‘venerdri’), which is a ‘true miracle’, since this strip has been published several times in French in different books (see illustration of the details of the successive publications). 

This very decorative lot is very attractive for an Italian or French collector. It will be impressive with a nice frame that will enhance the prestige of a large collection.

Guaranteed 100% authentic by Bernard Soetens, international Hergé expert and editor of the "Catalogue Scriptura" of sale of comics and original drawings to Luxembourg for more than 30 years, (Catalogue sent on simple request to Bernard.soetens@icloud.com) this remarkable Strip of Hugo Pratt is an opportunity to enhance a collection of original drawings of high quality.

Free registered shipping with insurance worldwide, and of course, to Italy...

Pratt, Hugo - Very fine - 1 Original artwork - Format 48 x 16 cm.

Corto Maltese - Strip original La Jeunesse de Corto - 3 Cases grand format avec Raspoutine et rare présence féminine - (1981)

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