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, has ...

Thomas Taylor's original cover illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) is expected to break auction records at Sotheby's on June 26. The book cover art that introduced readers ...

The watercolor illustration by Thomas Taylor was featured on the first edition of the novel in 1997. Courtesy Sotheby's In the 1990s, Thomas Taylor, a recent art school graduate, was working at a ...

Fan art for the new Harry Potter show imagines what the new cast will look like as their characters. The book series that kicked off the cultural phenomenon began in 1997 with Harry Potter and the ...

(CNN) — 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 illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone will go to auction in June. Sotheby's When 23-year-old Thomas Taylor was commissioned to create the cover art for a ...

Mary GrandPré is a hard working artist. Her work as an illustrator is very well known. Search her name on Google. It quickly reveals that she illustrated the “Harry Potter” novel series and other ...

It’s hard to not ponder the questions that surround “What if…” when it comes to Harry Potter, especially when thinking about the most heartbreaking deaths in the Wizarding World. For years, there have ...

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-related ...

The book cover art that introduced readers across the world to Harry Potter is expected to break auction records next month. This past week, Sotheby's announced the auction scheduled for June 26 in ...

Sotheby's June 26 auction of Thomas Taylor's watercolor illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is estimated to sell for... The book cover art that introduced readers across the ...

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