The piece of art, drawn in 1997, shattered expectations, selling for more than three times the expected price.
An original watercolour drawing for Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone has fetched a record amount at auction in the US.
It had an estimate of £320,420-£480,630 , which Sotheby’s claims is the “highest pre-sale estimate ever placed on an item of any Harry Potter-related work”. It took almost 10 minutes for the four-way bidding to finish on Wednesday for the illustration by Thomas Taylor who was just 23 years old when he painted it in 1997.
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