An original Tintin comic book cover that the legendary Belgian artist Hergé created in 1932 has fetched more than €1.3 million at a Paris auction house Artcurial.

An anonymous collector paid €1,338,509.20 (about $1.7 million Cdn including auction house premium) for the rare cover illustration of Tintin in America at the Artcurial auction house in Paris on Saturday.

The ink and gouache drawing is one of just five remaining cover works of this type by Hergé, the pen name of Belgian author-illustrator Georges Remi.

Pictured right: HERGÉ said Georges Remi (1907-1983) THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN AND SNOWY TINTIN IN AMERICA – Indian ink and gouache color produced in October 1932 for the album cover “The Adventures of Tintin see the small” twentieth “in America,” the third album of the series, published in 1932 editions of “Little twentieth. ” Reissued in 1934 by Editions “OgéO” in the collection of albums “Brave Hearts” and then in 1935 to Casterman. Signed in Indian ink. 32 x 32 cm. Hergé has made only five of Tintin album covers in color directly. The following are in black and white, the color being made by a blue coloring. Today, three of these hedges are Hergé museum, the other two are in private hands. It is therefore an essential work and museum, one of the largest in the ninth and twentieth century art. Joined the COA of the Hergé Foundation. Bibliography: Philippe Goddin – Hergé, chronology of a work, Volume 2, 1931-1935, page 110. Sold for € 1,338,509 

“The aim was not to beat a record; the aim was to obtain the work, before anything else,” a man named Didier, who represented the anonymous buyer, told Reuters. The same cover drawing previously sold at Artcurial in 2008 for €764,000.

The cover was part of a larger sale of more than 700 pieces of Tintin memorabilia, the Tintin in America cover depicts the globe-trotting boy journalist dressed as a cowboy and seated next to his dog Snowy, with several frowning and armed Native Americans creeping up behind him.

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