A Beatles painting titled Images of a Woman sold to one lucky fan for $1.7 million.
The painting was sold at Christie’s in New York during the annual Exceptional Sale on February 1, according to Art newspaper. The event is also held in London and Paris.
The piece was painted in July 1966 while the “Let It Be” singers were on tour in Japan. During their stay, they were confined to the Tokyo Hilton’s presidential suite due to local authorities’ security concerns, according to the Christie’s lot essay. They received numerous gifts from visitors, and one of them was a set of art materials.
Robert Whitaker, a photographer on the tour, captured the moment they sat down to take pictures.
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“The Beatles settled into four chairs around a table, on which they laid a large rectangular sheet of fine Japanese art paper,” the essay reads. “The chairs more or less corresponded to the four corners, and a table lamp was placed roughly in the center, to weigh down the paper and illuminate it. Working under a lighted bulb, each man began to create from his own corner and slowly worked his way up toward the center.”
The finished work was completed in two nights: “They would stop [painting], go and do a concert, then it was ‘Let’s get back to the picture!'” Whitaker said in the essay. “I never saw them calmer or more contented than at this time.”
The image remained untitled until the late 1980s, when a Japanese journalist reported seeing female genitalia in Paul McCartney’s quadrant.
Images of a Woman was first acquired by Tetsusaburo Shimoyama, an entertainment industry executive who was then president of the Tokyo Beatles Fan Club. Then in 1989, the painting was bought by Takao Nishino, a record store owner, who put the work up for auction in New York in 2012, and it was bought by Tracks Ltd UK, a dealer in Beatles memorabilia.
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