28th Mar, 2021 13:00

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction

 
  Lot 557
 

IMAGINE, A PASTEL BY PETER HOWSON

* PETER HOWSON OBE (SCOTTISH b 1958),
IMAGINE
pastel on paper, signed
60cm x 45cm
Mounted, framed and under glass.
Note: A Howson tribute to John Lennon MBE. John Winston Ono Lennon was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of The Beatles. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history. On 8th December 1980 Lennon was shot twice in the back and twice in the shoulder at close range by Mark David Chapman at approximately 10.50pm outside the Dakota Apartment Building in New York. At 11.15pm he was pronounced dead. His senseless death was headline news around the world and for many of his generation it was an "everyone remembers where they were when they heard" moment just as it had been when the assassination of US President John F Kennedy shocked the world almost two decades earlier. The day after Lennon's death, his wife, Yoko Ono, made an announcement in which she stated "John loved and prayed for the human race. Please do the same for him".

 

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Sold for £1,300
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500


 
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