The original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, the first book in author J.K. Rowling’s famous series, is now the most expensive piece of Potter ...

The original illustration for the first edition of J.K. Rowling’s 1997 novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” has sold for a record-breaking $1.9 million. It had been expected to ...

The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone - the book that introduced the world to the young bespectacled wizard - sold for US$1.9mil ...

A watercolor for the cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997), the first book in the smash hit series, sold for more than three times its estimate at Sotheby’s on Wednesday ...

In short: The original watercolour illustration for the first Harry Potter novel has sold for ... with the pressure of producing the cover art for one of the most famous books in the world ...

The original cover art for "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" - made by a then unknown illustrator, for a then unknown author, JK Rowling - is up for auction at Sotheby's in New York. 'It's ...

NEW YORK, United States — The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" — the book that introduced the world to the young ...

Expelliarmus to all previous records! An original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, the first book in J.K. Rowling's international hit series ...

The watercolor cover art was created by author and illustrator Thomas Taylor. The image features young wizard Harry Potter – with his unmistakable dark, brown hair, round glasses and lightning ...

More than 500 million copies of the books have been sold in 80 languages An art handler holds Thomas Taylor’s original cover art for J.K. Rowling's “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ...