A talented fellow student of John Lennon’s at the Liverpool College of Art, Stuart Sutcliffe (1940–1962) played the bass (unremarkably, some note) in the first incarnation of the Beatles. Uncomfortable on stage, he soon left the group to devote himself to his art career; not long after, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of twenty-one. Unsigned original pencil drawing, a vaguely androgynous head-and-shoulders portrait, on an off-white 6.25 x 8.25 page from Sutcliffe’s art school sketchbook. Matted and framed to an overall size of 15.75 x 18.75. In fine condition. LOA Roger Epperson/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
