John Lennon Signed “Bag One” Lithograph.

LENNON, John. [The Beatles].

$16,000.00

Item Number: 144022

New York: Cinnamon Press, 1970.

Rare Bag One lithograph signed by Beatles icon John Lennon. One page, the title page from Lennon’s Bag One Portfolio. Signed by him beneath the image. From the collection of Jonathan Cott, author and editor of numerous books, predominately focusing on music and who has written articles for varied publications such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Vogue, Esquire and The Wall Street Journal. This was presented by John Lennon to Jonathan Cott, who interviewed Lennon and Yoko Ono several times, and whose December 5, 1980 interview with Lennon was the final solo interview conducted before his death on December 8th of that year. Lennon had created the “Bag One” drawings depicting his wedding and honeymoon with Yoko Ono and presented them to her in 1969. Framed. Rare and desirable and with noted provenance.

In 1969, as a wedding gift for Yoko, John drew the 'Bag One Portfolio'—a chronicle of their wedding ceremony, honeymoon, and their plea for world peace in the Bed-In. The following year the artwork was produced in a series of three hundred portfolios of fifteen signed prints each. The majority depict John and Yoko's most intimate, private moments—upon their first exhibition in London, more than half were deemed 'indecent' and confiscated by Scotland Yard. The rare title page features perhaps the most famous and recognizable print of the suite.