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Lennon's Lost Art: Beatles Video Drawings Emerge
5 Jun
Summary
- John Lennon's artwork for a Beatles music video is now displayed.
- The drawings accompanied The Beatles' 1960s hit 'I Feel Fine'.
- A collector acquired the 240 drawings, some sold for over $58,000.
Drawings by John Lennon, thought to be from the world's first rock music video, are now on public display. These pop art images were created in the 1960s with artist Stephen Verona to accompany The Beatles' hit song 'I Feel Fine'.
Initially, 240 drawings existed, with some fetching over $58,000 at auction in 2000. Collector Joseph O'Donnell acquired ten of these artworks, which feature individual words from the song. He has loaned them to the Liverpool Beatles Museum.
Verona stated he and Lennon colored the images with felt tip markers in his Manhattan apartment. O'Donnell hopes to eventually sell the drawings but wanted fans to see them displayed together. The artworks, including phrases like "baby says she's mine", are on view for several months.
