Through the years, Sotheby’s has offered dozens of sales categories, but until quite recently, comic book art wasn’t one of them. In Paris this week that changed, as the auction house offered its first auction of comic strips. An original drawing by Belgian Tintin artist Georges Remi, better known as Herge, for his album “The Shooting Star” led the event with a price of $288,300.The sale included 100 works, which brought in almost $800,000. While one of the auction’s highest estimated lots, an original 1941 panel from Herge’s “The Crab with the Golden Claws” for which Sotheby’s had anticipated a price of at least $295,000, failed to find a buyer, a number of other lots sold well, including an original work for “The Gorilla has done it” in the “Robbedoes and Kwabbernoot” series by Franquin , which realized more than $86,000.
Tintin Leads Sotheby’s lst Comic Art Sale
July 06, 2012
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