Sotheby’s will auction an original Harry Potter watercolor alongside works by literary greats like Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Sotheby's June 26 auction of Thomas Taylor's watercolor illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is estimated to sell for $400,000-$600,000.

The watercolor cover art for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was painted in 1996 by a recent art school graduate from Britain who was working at a bookstore.

THE original painting for the front cover of the first Harry Potter book has sold for a record £1.5million at auction. The watercolour shows Harry with his trademark scar in front of the Hogwarts ...

The painting, which became the 1997 first edition cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, is an illustration by Thomas Taylor, valued between $400,000 to $600,000 (£320,420 to £ ...

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.