An illustration to Winnie the Pooh was sold for £ 430,000

A 1926 painting depicting the imaginary world of Winnie the Pooh was sold on Tuesday for a record 430,000 pounds (US $ 570,000). The significant amount was reached during an auction in London, organized by Sotheby's international auction house, BGNews informs. The pencil-painted author is the English illustrator and illustrator Ernest Howard Shepherd (1879-1976), who gained worldwide fame through the illustrations of Alan Alexander Miln's (1882-1956) book on the sympathetic, well known throughout a teddy bear named teddy bear. In all likelihood, the creation of the Stocktow Forest map, where Winnie the Pooh works, was aided by Milne's son Christopher Robin because it is clearly visible on the 380-449 mm sheet. Shepard helped.
The amount paid by an anonymous collector far exceeds the previous record of $ 415,000 given in 2014 for another original illustration of Millen's book. In addition to the original illustration of the Stockable Forest, Sotheby's has sold four other original designs to the popular children's book, for a total of $ 645,000

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