April 19,London:
Unique artwork for Harry Potter books is to be auctioned at the Glasgow Art Fair. Drawings by the acclaimed artist Cliff Wright, who illustrated the book Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, are to go under the hammer later this month. The drawings are the instantly recognizable forerunners of the images, which appeared on the front and back covers of the second novel of JK Rowling's series. illustration, which features the bespectacled wizard and his classmate Hermione Granger clinging to the back of Hippocratic, is expected to fetch 13,000 pounds.
The Drawings are part of a series of 10 which were sent to the publisher Bloomsbury as rough ideas for character development and composition," he said. "Each drawing was submitted by fax and returned with comments. The designs were also passed on to JK Rowling for her approval and any comments passed back to me," the Scotsman quoted Wright as saying.
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