about Tin Tin Reading

In 1993, Roy Lichtenstein illustrated the cover of Frederic Tuten’s novel "Tintin in the New World" with his work "Tintin Reading".

Very representative of the artist’s style, it shows Tintin sitting in a room reading his newspaper, Snowy lying at his feet, the captain’s cap on a small chest of drawers. The work has many references: the painting "The Dance" by Matisse is hung on the wall, the dagger and the armchair recall the cover of the "Little Twentieth of January 1936" (cf. The Broken Ear), and the onomatopoeia "CRAC" evokes the painting "Crack!" painted in 1963 by the artist.