Winnie-the-Pooh Drawing Auctioned
Published November 5th, 2008
An original drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh sold for £31,200 at a Bonhams auction in central London yesterday. Tiggers Don’t Like Honey by Ernest H. Shepard, the illustrator, by a private collector from Germany over the telephone.
The pencil drawing depicts Pooh reaching his paw into a honey pot, while Tigger and Piglet sit around a kitchen table and is an enlarged version of an illustration that appeared in A.A. Milne’s children’s classic “The House at Pooh Corner.”
Another work by Shepard, a first sketch for The Wind in the Willows, sold for £7,440.
The sale also featured material from Beatrix Potter.
A signed first edition of The Tailor of Gloucester and correspondence between Potter and her friends fetched £3,840.
On Nov. 11, Bonhams will offer an unpublished watercolor illustration by Potter of a female rabbit who wore a pink ribbon around her neck but who did not appear in any of Potter’s tales. Also going up for sale then, will be a Christmas card featuring guinea pigs designed by the author and illustrator, the auction house said.
Auction info www.bonhams.com
