A rare 1932
cover drawing of a Tintin comic book has fetched a record 1.3m euros (£1m;
$1.6m) at auction in Paris.
The Tintin in America cover, hand-drawn by Belgian
writer and illustrator Herge, broke the record - set by the same item in 2008,
when it sold for 764,000 euros.
It shows the young adventurer Tintin, dressed as a
cowboy and sitting with his dog, Snowy, as axe-wielding American Indians creep
up on them.
It was bought by a private collector.
The Indian ink and gouache drawing work is one of
only five remaining such works by Herge - real name Georges Remi - who died in
1983. Only two of those are in private hands.
The buyer is anonymous but he was represented at the
auction by a friend identified only as Didier.
"If he'd have been able to get it for less I
think he would have been happy," Didier said after the sale, according to
news agency Reuters.
"The aim was not to beat a record; the aim was
to obtain the work, before anything else... You don't come here to beat the
world record, to spend money, that doesn't make any sense."
Saturday's sale was part of a rare larger sale of
Tintin memorabilia, reportedly including draft sketches of Tintin and a copy of
Explorers on the Moon, signed by the first men to walk on the Moon, Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and fellow astronaut Michael Collins.
Source: BBC
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