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Original Peanuts sells for $113,525
An original Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Sunday strip, dated April 10, 1955, recently sold for $113,525. The auction, held by Heritage Auction Galleries, took place on November 15-16.
“This particular piece is the first Peanuts original ever to sell in the six-figure range,” said Ed Jaster, vice president for Heritage. “The demand for Schulz’s Peanuts art has been steadily growing over the last several years. In the last six years, Heritage has sold 61 Peanuts dailies and 30 Peanuts Sundays.”
I suspect that the recent popularity of the Fantagraphic collections, the Schulz and Peanuts bio, and the American Masters helped in driving the price up.
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Community Comments
December/6/2007 @ 12:37 pm
WOW!!! As most people know, Schulz used to mail fans original strips (with the famous center fold) for free!
December/6/2007 @ 1:30 pm
Not to mention the $101K-plus sales price fetched by the original R. Crumb art for Mr. Natural No. 1.
I don’t know which I’d rather own more, assuming I could ever afford that sort of do-re-mi.
December/6/2007 @ 10:15 pm
I had a professor in college who had an original Peanuts from 1952 hanging on his office wall. The first time I saw it, I said, “I’ll give you $150 for that.” He looked long and hard at the cartoon and then back at me and said, “Nah.”
$113,525. I really wish he had taken me up on the deal.
December/9/2007 @ 6:22 am
c’mon, a little rain never hurt anybody. i miss peanuts.
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