The Sutcliffe estate is currently seeking a buyer to acquire its entire collection—a trove that doesn’t just capture an abstract artist in bloom, but logs the formation of one of the world’s most beloved bands. It promises to be a goldmine for art as much as music historians, if they’ll bite.
...In the years following his death, Sutcliffe’s sister has assiduously amassed an archive in his name. Today, it encompasses some 400 paintings, sketches, and drawings, and 200 other artifacts. Among them, the artworks reveal Sutcliffe’s burgeoning abstract and figurative style across life studies and densely impasto-ed canvases. Other objects bear out his fastidious record-keeping. There are his hand-drawn maps of London galleries, as well as an historic letter in which the band name “The Quarryman” is scratched out and filled in with “Beatals” in Sutcliffe’s hand.
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