A famous 'Winnie the Pooh' drawing by late E. H. Shepard has been sold for 314,500 pounds at auction.
EH Shepard’s ink drawing of the bear playing Pooh sticks with Piglet and Christopher Robin was published in 1928. The illustration, which featured in AA Milne’s second book, ‘The House at Pooh Corner’, had been in a private collection since the 1970s. It formed part of Sotheby’s sale of children’s books.
Shephard’s ink drawing featured in Chapter 6 of AA Milne’s book ‘The House at Pooh Corner’, in which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in. It accompanies the closing scene of the chapter where the three characters stand on the ‘Poohsticks’ bridge as the mood changes from the high excitement of their new game to a more wistful atmosphere, media reported.
Shepard and Milne had worked together on four books ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ (1926), ‘The House at Pooh Corner’ (1928), a poem about the bear in verse book ‘When We Were Very Young’ (1924) and ‘Now We Are Six’ (1927).
It was one of several Shepard illustrations up for auction. A pencil drawing of the same scene sold at Sotheby’s last year for 58,750 pound.
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