Tintin comic book art breaks auction record at $3.1MPARIS (AP) – A Tintin drawing by the Belgian artist Herge sold at auction Thursday in Paris for 2.6 million euros ($3.1 million), breaking the record for the most expensive comic book art in history.
Heritage Auctions’ comics sales total $79M in 2019DALLAS – Auction sales for the Comics & Comic Art Department at Heritage soared to a record $79,332,770 in 2019, with sell-through rates exceeding 99% as measured both by value and by number of lots. The total was the highest ever in the 18-year history of the department, and represented a jump of more than […]
First published Tintin cover art sells at auction for $1.12MDALLAS – The very first original cover art featuring the beloved comic character Tintin, Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, sold for more than $1.12 million by Heritage Auctions on Saturday, June 8, in a sale of European Comic Art.
Trio of Warhol attributions tops $50K at Woodshed saleFRANKLIN, Mass. – Three artworks attributed to Pop Art icon Andy Warhol—stylized renditions of the products Chanel No. 5 and Absolut Vodka, plus one of Elvis Presley as a gunslinging cowboy—combined for a little more than $50,000 in an online fine art auction titled “Private Art Collections & Estate Discoveries” held March 15 by Woodshed […]