From Albert Einstein’s notes to a record-breaking Frida Kahlo to a 6.6 million euro (US$6.79 million) triceratops auction houses have lately seen a string of record-breaking items going under the hammer and through the roof.
Valuations are becoming hard to judge.
On Wednesday, the Einstein manuscript went for 11.3 million euros in Paris, five times its expected price.
That came just days after a storyboard for the failed 1970s film version of Dune sparked a bidding war that pushed the price 100 times above the valuation to 2.7 million euros.
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Tintin painting sells for record 3.2 mln euros at auction
The gouache, ink and watercolour creation measures 34 by 34 centimetres (13 inches) and features Tintin and his dog Snowy emerging from a porcelain jar in front of a menacing depiction of a Chinese dragon.
by Hugues Honore and Adam Plowright
PARIS
(AFP)
.- An original painting by Tintin creator Herge sold for a record 3.2 million euros ($3.9 million) at an online auction on Thursday, auction house Artcurial announced.
The item, intended as a front cover for The Blue Lotus volume from 1936, easily beat the previous record for the sale of comic book art of 2.65 million euros, which was reached in 2014 for a double-page drawing by Herge.