Images of a woman up for auction again!

It is amazing that this painting is still around!  The painting titled "Images of a woman" that was painted by all four Beatles while they were in the Hilton Hotel in Japan in 1966 is back up for auction!   If you want to bid on it, then you can go here and place your bid.  Or you might just want to be like me and look at the close-up photos of the painting. 

As the story goes, the Beatles were asked what they wanted to do while they were basically trapped in their hotel room while in Tokyo.   Most thought they would like to have some Geisha Girls brought up to the room, but nope....surprisingly enough they wanted some paints and brushes.   And the four guys sat around a table and worked together on a painting.  I don't know about you, but that totally fascinates me.   While John and Paul have always been known for their artistic ways (and now Ringo with his computer graphic art that I really do enjoy), but for all four of them to work together on that painting is just sort of crazy.   And they didn't just work on "Images of a woman."   That was the largest painting they did, but from the photographs you can see that they also worked on some individual smaller paintings.  

Once they were done with the painting, they autographed the center section (where the lamp was sitting in the middle) and gave it to Beatles to fan club chairman Tetsuaburo Shimoyama.  I am unsure what he did with the painting, but it re-surfaced in the mid 1990's and was sold for 15 million Yen to someone in Japan.   It was then seen again on ebay in 2002 and then again in 2005!   Now it is back up for auction and is going to trade hands.  I really hope that some museum gets it this time and puts in on display.  I would love the chance to see this rare footnote in Beatles history in person.

John shows off the finished work Source:  Born-late Blog

Close-up on the autographs in the middle of the painting.   Source:  Current auction

photo:  Robert Whitaker

Photo:  Robert Whitaker

photo:  Robert Whitaker

Photo:  Robert Whitaker

Close up on the paints the Beatles used.  Photo:  Robert Whitaker

Photo:  Robert Whitaker

Photo:  Robert Whitaker

Photo:  Robert Whitaker

You can see the finished painting on the table without the autographs in the center

Fortunately, photographer Robert Whitaker took lots of photos of the Beatles working on the painting.   Beautiful stuff!