Tintin cover fetches 1.3 million Euros at a Tintin memorabilia in Paris

A rare 1932 cover drawing of a has fetched a record 1.3 million Euros ($1.6 million) at auction in Paris.

The cover, hand-drawn by Belgian writer and illustrator , 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 – who died in 1983. Only two of those are in private hands.

A rare 1932 cover drawing of a Tintin comic book has fetched a record 1.3 million Euros 1.6 million at auction in Paris photo

A rare 1932 cover drawing of a Tintin comic book has fetched a record 1.3 million Euros ($1.6 million) at auction in Paris

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 , 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 , signed by the first men to walk on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and fellow astronaut Michael Collins.

 

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