The artwork has fetched a record amount at auction and has become the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold.
The original watercolor illustration of ‘Harry potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’by JK Rowling, sold on Wednesday for a record number of 1.9 million dollars (about 1.7 million euros), becoming the object of Harry Potter most valuable ever sold at auction.
The work of Thomas Taylor, which was sold at the house Sotheby’s of New York, appeared in the first edition covers from the 1997 novel.
Taylor was just 23 years old when she received her first professional commission to create a cover for JK Rowling’s first novel. She was one of the first people to read the manuscript of the original Harry Potter book, and It took two days to finish the workmade with concentrated watercolors and black pencil outlines.
“It’s really about the first viewing of harry and the world of magicians,” said Kalika Sands of Sotheby’s auction house.
Before the auctionare estimated price It was from between 400,000 and 600,000 dollarswhich Sotheby’s says is the “highest pre-sale estimate ever made for a Harry Potter-related work.”
It was sold for more than triple the expected price. The identity of the buyer has not been revealed.
He previous record for a Harry Potter item up for auction was set at 2021when an unsigned first edition of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ sold for $421,000 (394,000 euros) at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.
A manuscript of ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’, a book of fairy tales referenced in Harry Potter, is expected to sell for between $250,000 and $350,000, with bidding closing tomorrow.
