The newly discovered drawing had been in the possession of the late Christopher Foyle, the former chairman of Foyles bookshops, a famous British bookstore chain co-founded by his grandfather, William, in 1903. Last year, the original pen and ink drawing Shepard created for Winnie-the-Pooh’s first edition sold for a whopping $220,000. Today, over 50 million copies have been sold worldwide. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh was an immediate success, with the first edition selling 35,000 copies in the United Kingdom. According to the auction house, the illustration may be worth $25,000 to $38,000. “We see reproductions of this famous drawing from time to time, which have no commercial value, so we were delighted and amazed to be able to authenticate this immediately and save it from being thrown out to charity as a cheap print,” writes Dominic Winter Auctioneers in a statement. In the illustration, Pooh is walking away into the sunset with his buddy Piglet. “Being drawn 30 years later, it’s not in the same league as the original drawing made for the book in the 1920s, but it is the next best thing,” Chris Albury, senior auctioneer and valuer at Dominic Winter Auctioneers, tells CNN’s Lianne Kolirin. The card is dated 1958-over three decades after the book’s publication in 1926. Shepard drew the illustration on a small 3.5- by 6.5-inch card when he was 79 years old. Shepard made of this particular image, one of the final drawings from the first Winnie-the-Pooh book. Now, the rediscovered sketch could sell for thousands.Īccording to Dominic Winter Auctioneers, the auction house in charge of the sale, the black and white sketch may be the last copy that illustrator E.H. For decades, an original Winnie-the-Pooh sketch had been hiding in a cellar, wrapped in an old tea towel and forgotten in the back of a drawer.
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