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1950S
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ELVIS PRESLEY ART BY STUART SUTCLIFFE
1950s
A beautifully detailed painting by early Beatles member Stuart Sutcliffe depicting one of the band's chief influences, Elvis Presley. Undated and unsigned, this combination of Mondrian's "box" style and Picasso's multi-faceted cubist imagery, particularly in Presley's body and face, the painting also features numerous guitars and the names of some of Presley's hits incorporated into the work. A close friend of John Lennon's, Sutcliffe joined The Beatles in 1960, and left a year and a half later to concentrate on his art, only to die of a brain haemorrhage a few months later. A pencil sketch of a figure from the waist up is present on verso in much the same style.
8 x 10¼ inches
1950s
A beautifully detailed painting by early Beatles member Stuart Sutcliffe depicting one of the band's chief influences, Elvis Presley. Undated and unsigned, this combination of Mondrian's "box" style and Picasso's multi-faceted cubist imagery, particularly in Presley's body and face, the painting also features numerous guitars and the names of some of Presley's hits incorporated into the work. A close friend of John Lennon's, Sutcliffe joined The Beatles in 1960, and left a year and a half later to concentrate on his art, only to die of a brain haemorrhage a few months later. A pencil sketch of a figure from the waist up is present on verso in much the same style.
8 x 10¼ inches