Stuart Sutcliffe Paintings
If youre into iconic music and the feelings of nostalgia that it invokes you will appreciate these stuart sutcliffe works of art.
Stuart sutcliffe paintings. George harrison called him their art director. No products in the cart. A friend of john lennon from art school he became the bass player for the new band then known as the silver beatles. The official stuart sutcliffe estate manages the stuart sutcliffe art and artefact collections of stuart sutcliffe the scottish painter and musician who is known as the fifth beatle but he was really the fourth.
Sutcliffe and john lennon are credited with inventing the name beetles as they both liked buddy hollys band the crickets. Stuart fergusson victor sutcliffe was a scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the english rock band the beatles. 1 52 of 52 stuart sutcliffe art for sale. Stuart is credited with naming and styling the beatles.
Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter having previously attended the liverpool college of art. In april 1961 he won a scholarship to study at the chief hamburg art school under prominent pop artist eduardo paolozzi and left the beatles to devote himself. Collage monotype by sutcliffe. Stuart sutcliffe with notes.
He eventually quit the band in 1961 to continue his career as a visual artist. Sutcliffes painting and artistic legacy although sutcliffe enjoyed great popularity in the beatles his nightly crooning of love me tender to kirchherr was always the most applauded song from their set much to the fury of mccartney and lennon he was at best a second rate bass player whose real passion and skill lay in painting. Stu sutcliffe was one of the original members of the beatles and a talented abstract expressionist artist. Take your pick from a variety of scenes from the beatles era right down to the very bench sat on by stuart sutcliffe.
Stuart sutcliffe left the beatles in 1961 and studied at the hamburg college of art under the direction of edwardo paolozzi. Poster paint on paper figurative mother and child signed sutcliffe group ii and inscribed on label verso liverpool series 10 circa 1958 59 535 x 74cm framed and glazed.