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John Lennon Bag One Luggage to hold Lithographs Very Rare Unique Collectable WoW
$ 13199.47
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Available is this bag (Luggage) the second picture is from the auction I bought it from. I have never unwrapped it, so other then the second picture they are all pictures from elsewhere. The description is, again, from the original listing. The edition was originally 300, which puts this bag limited to 300. Not numbered.VERY RARE and VERY UNIQUE and VERY COLLECTIBLE. You don't and won't see many of these coming to auctions. If they do it will be at Heritage, RR Auction or Southerly, with at least a 25% mark up.
A Little History:
John Lennon "Bag One" Original White Portfolio Bag.
Lennon created a series of drawings depicting scenes from his and Yoko Ono's wedding and honeymoon. He gave them to her as a wedding present in 1969. The next year, a series of fourteen lithographs were created based on the original drawings and exhibited in New York and London. Eight of the prints were quite erotic in nature and Scotland Yard confiscated them as pornography, a charge that was later dropped. There were 300 numbered sets of the prints created, each 23" x 30" in size and signed in graphite by Lennon.
They were placed inside an imprinted white vinyl zippered case
and sold through art galleries. Through the years many, if not most, of these complete portfolios have been broken up with the signed lithographs and
bags sold individually.
One could search long and hard before finding another example of a complete and original Bag One suite.
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