Tintin cover gets record price
4 Jun 2012 2:25 AM GMT
A rare 1932 cover of Tintin in America, hand-drawn by Belgian writer and illustrator Herge, has fetched a record 1.3 million euros [$1.6 million] at an auction in Paris.
The sale broke the record - set by the same item in 2008 - when it sold for 764,000 euros, BBC reported.
The cover shows 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 Saturday.
The drawing is one of only five remaining such works by Herge - whose real name was Georges Remi. Herge died in 1983. Only two such works are in private hands.
The sale was part of a larger sale of Tintin memorabilia, 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.
The sale broke the record - set by the same item in 2008 - when it sold for 764,000 euros, BBC reported.
The cover shows 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 Saturday.
The drawing is one of only five remaining such works by Herge - whose real name was Georges Remi. Herge died in 1983. Only two such works are in private hands.
The sale was part of a larger sale of Tintin memorabilia, 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.
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