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An autographed painting of The Beatles has sold for a record price

Photo: Christie’s

All four musicians have backgrounds in the arts. John Lennon attended art school for three years and published two books of “lightning-fast cartoons.”

Photo of the famous group The Beatles Pictures of a woman sold at auction for $1.7 million. At first it was estimated at 600 thousand dollars. ARTnews reported this.

Pictures of a woman “is the only known significant work of art created by the four musicians during their years of collaboration – an amazing and unique item of original provenance,” says the Christie’s auction website, where the auction.

As you know, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison did a painting together in acrylic and watercolor, between concerts in the Presidential Suite of the Hilton Hotel in Tokyo.

They spent about 100 hours there, between June 29 and July 3, 1966.

The paints for the painting were brought by fans on a visit to the hotel. The creation process took two days and was captured by British photographer Robert Whitaker.

The photographer said the musicians “never discussed what they were drawing” and that the images “developed naturally.”

Recall that a Rembrandt painting was sold at a Sotheby’s auction Worship of the Magiwhich for a long time was mistakenly attributed to the artist’s student.

Almost 100 years later, a painting by Gustav Klimt was found in Vienna
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