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Pattie Boyd Sells 'Layla' Album Cover Painting for $2.5 Million
The painting, titled La Jeune Fille au Bouquet and created by Emile Theeodore Frandsen in the mid '50s, was acquired by Clapton directly via the artist's son in 1970. Clapton later gifted it to Harrison in the late '70s, who in turn gifted to Boyd in the late '80s. Boyd has now sold the painting for $2.5 million.
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Consumos web. 03/26/2024
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Consumos web. 03/23/2024
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The 111 lots up for sale included affectionate letters from both her iconic rock icon husbands George Harrison and Eric Clapton, alongside clothing, jewelry, drawings and photographs — some of Boyd, and some by her.
20240318
Consumos web. 03/18/2024
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The Beatles: Sir Sam Mendes to direct four films - one about each band member
Coincidentally, Backbeat was turned into a novel by music journalist Alan Clayson - who later published a four-volume box set, telling the Beatles' story from the perspective of each individual band member. Sound familiar?
tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlebooks beatlemovies beatlepeople
20240316
Consumos web. 03/16/2024
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A trove from Pattie Boyd's life with George Harrison and Eric Clapton is up for sale - ABC News
Boyd is an accomplished photographer, and the sale includes both large-scale portraits and informal Polaroids of Harrison, Clapton and other musicians, including Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend and Ronnie Wood.
tags: Beatles beatlehistory GeorgeHarrison beatlephotos PattieBoyd beatlepeople mercado de arte
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Paul McCartney reunited with guitar stolen 51 years ago
The guitar, originally purchased for £30 in Germany in 1961, has not been valued, but the Lost Bass team think it would be worth more than the most expensive guitar ever sold - a Kurt Cobain guitar which sold for a record $6m (£4.9m) at auction in 2020. John Lennon's stolen guitar sold for $2.4m (£1.9m) when it resurfaced half a century later.
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20240217
Consumos web. 02/17/2024
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John Lennon's 'long lost' Gibson guitar up for sale - BBC News - YouTube
A guitar owned and used by John Lennon, which was lost after a gig, is going to be auctioned in the United States. The Gibson J-160-E acoustic guitar has been declared genuine by Beatles' instruments expert Andy Babiuk, who compared it to photographs and film footage of Lennon playing it. It will be auctioned in Beverley Hills in November. Mike Embley reports.
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Paul McCartney reunited with long-lost bass guitar, stolen in 1972 - The Washington Post
contacted Nick Wass, a McCartney collaborator who has worked at Höfner and had launched the project, to see if they could help. Wass is “absolutely the world’s expert on violin Höfner basses, and he’s the expert on Paul’s bass,” according to Jones. Wass co-wrote the definitive book about the Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass and has worked closely with McCartney’s team to supply parts and basses, according to a Beatles museum in Liverpool.
tags: Beatle beatlegear beatlehistory
20240128
Consumos web. 01/28/2024
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Gustav Klimt’s ‘Portrait of Fräulein Lieser’ rediscovered 100 years later - The Washington Post
The only remaining record of the work was a black and white photograph from 1925, around the time it was last exhibited, which was kept in the archives of the Austrian National Library.
tags: historia de el arte Klimt mercado de arte nazismo expolio
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